Frank Newby 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 Gowan James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and such engineers as Ove Arup and Felix Samuely.
10 Facts About Frank Newby
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Frank Newby studied "mechanical sciences", now known as engineering, at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1943 and 1947.
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In 1949 Frank Newby joined the engineering consultancy firm of Felix Samuely in London.
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Frank Newby 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.
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Frank Newby became a partner of the practice in 1956 and then, following the death of Felix Samuely in 1959, the head of the practice at the age of 32.
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Frank Newby had designed the British buildings in the 1958 Brussels Expo '58, and this had helped him establish a reputation for being one of the most creative engineers working at the time.
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Frank Newby went on to work with the Chicago based firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to design a new factory for Boots in Nottingham, completed in 1968.
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Frank Newby was actively involved in the Institution of Structural Engineers, where he was the convenor of the History Group, which examined the history of structural engineering.
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Frank Newby restored and returned a medieval chantry in Wiltshire to its original state, and had the building listed.
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Frank Newby was awarded the Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal in 1985.