Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
Levy, Matthys; Salvadori, Mario
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
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- Title
- Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
- Author
- Levy, Matthys; Salvadori, Mario
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039331152X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393311525
- Illustrator
- Woest, Kevin
- Item weight
- 1.22 pounds
The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena. Their subjects range from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco.
The stories that make up Why Buildings Fall Down are in the end very human ones, tales of the interaction of people and nature, of architects, engineers, builders, materials, and natural forces all coming together in sometimes dramatic (and always instructive) ways. B/W line drawings"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Mario G. Salvadori was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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