Chris Williams - Bath University

Chris Williams joined Ted Happold’s group at Ove Arup and Partners in 1972 and there he worked on Frei Otto’s Mannheim gridshells with Ian Liddell.

In 1976 Chris joined Ted Happold at the University of Bath. He has a particular interest in the relationship between geometrical form and structural action as applied to bridges, shells, tension structures and tall buildings. He is also very much concerned with fluid/structure interaction – the effect of wind and waves on flexible structures.

He has worked on computational geometry and structural behaviour with engineers and architects including Buro Happold, atelier one, Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, Branson Coates Architecture, Shigeru Ban Architects, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Edward Cullinan Architects and Glenn Howells Architects.