Thursday, 7 March 2013

Formula One's Adrian Newey

I thought I would post about one of the people who got me interested in aerodynamics in the first place. It is completely unrelated to architecture, but what the heck. His name is Adrian Newey, and he is the chief designer for F1's Red Bull Racing team (yes, if you know anything about me, it's that I'm a car racing nerd). Adrian graduated from the University of Southampton (that's in England, not Scotland) with a degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has been working in Formula One since 1988 (when I was crawling around in nappies and reading books made from foam). He calls himself the "dinsosaur", as he is the only designer in the industry who still chooses to painstakingly sketch out all of his designs by hand on a drawing board, instead of using a CAD program. The man is smart enough to design spaceships, but instead, he designs cars that can reach speeds of over 300 km/hr. Fast cars are way cooler than buildings. Much cooler. Sorry Dale.

You can read a bit more about Adrian here.
Red Bull Designer Adrian Newey Still Ahead of the Game

Photo credit www.newyorker.com

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2 comments:

  1. Dale Parkes14 March 2013 at 11:20

    Is there any reason why we can not design high performance buildings that are as cool as high performance autos? True, buildings do not move, but you need something to look at while you are driving!

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  2. Unknown3 April 2013 at 21:41

    K, I've got it.... Highly powerful, aerodynamically designed, Esthetically pleasing... Motorhomes! :)

    I really enjoyed your blog Sam, I did not understand building aerodynamics was such a large market. Also find it interesting how it seems to be almost monopolized by one company.

    I believe tying cars into your report could be a good way to relay information or dumb it down for someone like me as the concept may be easier to understand and the amount of efforts put into the research of automobile aerodynamics is exponentially larger over the many years, I am sure, and agreed cars may be cooler... However I am not sure if the same principals transfer over between the two.

    But regardless I am excited to hear more about your unique topic!

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