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Why Buildings Fall Down Book

Why Buildings Fall Down : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393311525 : 039331152X : 17 Feb 2002 : 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.Read More

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  • ASDA

    The authors both premier structural engineers discuss architectural and structural catastrophes from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a feast of architectural flops and flummoxes natural disasters and human error.

  • Foyles

    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.

  • Blackwell

    Whenever a building, bridge, tunnel or dam collapses, it is front page news. Now two of the world's premier structural engineers take readers on a journey through the history of structural disasters, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to the...

  • Waterstones

    The authors, both premier structural engineers, discuss architectural and structural catastrophes, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a feast of architectural flops and

  • Pickabook

    Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori

  • 039331152X
  • 9780393311525
  • M Levy
  • 1 September 1994
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
  • New edition
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