Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), and such engineers as Ove Arup and Felix Samuely.
Frank Newby was born in Barnsley on 26 March, 1926. He studied "mechanical sciences", now known as engineering, at Trinity Colle...
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Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), and such engineers as Ove Arup and Felix Samuely.
Frank Newby was born in Barnsley on 26 March, 1926. He studied "mechanical sciences", now known as engineering, at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1943 and 1947. He undertook National Service from 1947 to 1949.
In 1949 Frank Newby joined the engineering consultancy firm of Felix Samuely in London. With Felix Samuely, he worked on the design of the Skylon (tower) for the 1951 Festival of Britain - a structure which became the symbol of the festival.
He spent 1952 in the United States, funded by a National Security Alliance scholarship, where he worked with exponents of the modern movement such as Charles Greaves and Fred Scriven. He rejoined Samuely's practice in...
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