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Meditations in an emergency

2010-04-09T00:00:00Z

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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Price, value and Vincent van Gogh

2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

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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Chris Wise on chivalry in construction

2010-01-15T00:00:00Z

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…

2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

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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Chris Wise on RIBA's Lubetkin prize: The ugliness of steel

2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

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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Being a sport

2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

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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Lost in Translation

2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

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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The bridge on the river Tees

2009-05-29T00:00:00Z

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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Human beans

2009-04-24T00:00:00Z

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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The world in a pencil

2009-03-20T00:00:00Z

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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Stop navel-gazing and look up

2009-01-30T00:56:00Z

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

1999-09-24T00:00:00Z

What will Prescott need to match Egan's vorsprung durch Technik with Rogers' huggy togetherness? A good imagination, perhaps.