All articles by Chris Wise – Page 2
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CommentMeditations in an emergency
What happens when, in the middle of a horrible recession, a group of engineers devotes a year’s worth of Mondays to thinking instead of working?
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CommentPrice, value and Vincent van Gogh
It’s sad but true that the way we define the worth of people, professions and companies has nothing to do with the value of what they actually do, says Chris Wise
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CommentChris Wise on chivalry in construction
The Middle Ages weren’t all codpieces, smiting and pointy shoes. In fact, many of the principles of knightly conduct still apply today, often in surprising ways
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Feelings, wo-o-o feelings…
You don’t often see the words ‘engineering’ and ‘emotion’ in the same sentence, but once the connection is made, it can change lives
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CommentChris Wise on RIBA's Lubetkin prize: The ugliness of steel
The RIBA was wrong to give the Lubetkin prize to Beijing’s Olympic stadium. A building that contains that much embodied energy is frankly distasteful
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CommentBeing a sport
Cricket and rugby have much to teach construction. Not least, as the last Ashes test so abundantly demonstrated, how to lose with dignity
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CommentLost in Translation
Designers can have 10 great ideas before breakfast, but if they can’t find ways of making the bureaucracies that run our world understand them, they’re doomed
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CommentThe bridge on the river Tees
Its parents were Eric Fletcher and Margaret Thatcher. Assisting at the birth were 500 midwives. It is now being cared for by the 187,000 people of Stockton-on-Tees
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CommentHuman beans
Our percentage fee culture treats architects and engineers like commodities and actually pays them less the better their designs work. Time for a rethink
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CommentThe world in a pencil
A graphite mark on a piece of paper is one of the most powerful, versatile and informative objects in the world. So why don’t engineers make more use of it?
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CommentStop navel-gazing and look up
We are so focused on our own disciplines that we fail to see there’s a bigger universe out there. What’s more, this universe is a lot more connected than we think
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Creative tension
What will Prescott need to match Egan's vorsprung durch Technik with Rogers' huggy togetherness? A good imagination, perhaps.
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