Why Buildings Fall Down

LEVY,M

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Author
LEVY,M
Publish Date
06/01/1994
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
NORTON
Subtitle
How Structures Fail
Number of Pages
346
Edition
Updated and expanded
ISBN-10
039331152X
ISBN-13
9780393311525
SKU
9780393311525

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