Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail

Type

Book

Authors

Matthys Levy

Mario Salvadori

ISBN 10

039331152X

ISBN 13

9780393311525

Tags

Architecture, Design & Construction, Structural, Study & Teaching, Construction, Reference

Description

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 - from Amzon

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