From its inception desert racing's wide-open environment gave the automotive industry a new forum for brilliant innovators like Vic Hickey to create the original "Baja Boot" and the legendary Olds 442 "Banshee".
With a few fairly brilliant algorithms, researchers hope to predict impending heart attacks or strokes, using the data to createa new service business.
But the quality that ties all of Stirling's work together is something that only the greatest architects possess: the unique ability to think volumetrically, to conceptualize and visualize all of a building's components and relationships simultaneously in all three dimensions, reorganizing and reinventing those relationships to createbrilliant spatial progressions and shifts in perception and experience that elude more ordinary talents.