• See large image

  Why Buildings Fall Down (Paperback) By (author) Matthys Levy, By (author) Mario Salvadori

  

  $15.44 - Save $5.22 25% off - RRP $20.66 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Short Description for Why Buildings Fall DownThe 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.
  Full description

  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 01 September 1994
  • Format: Paperback 334 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Theory Of Architecture | Architectural Structure & Design | Structural Engineering | Building Construction & Materials
  • ISBN 13: 9780393311525 ISBN 10: 039331152X
  • Sales rank: 41,570

• The Priciples of Political Econo...

  

  Add to basket $11.35 - Save $9.31 45% off - RRP $20.66

• Pushing the Limits

  

  Add to basket $14.95 -

• Drawing and Designing with Confi...

  

  Add to basket $66.45 - Save $9.08 (12%) - RRP $75.53

• The Architectural Drawing Course

  

  Add to basket $22.58 - Save $1.19 (5%) - RRP $23.77

• Rethinking Architecture

  

  Add to basket $52.85 - Save $2.79 (5%) - RRP $55.64

Full description for Why Buildings Fall Down

• "Whatever goes up must come down" does not, fortunately, apply to most of the structures in today's world. In fact, whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses nowadays, it is front page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as fascinating as any detective story. In this book, two of the world's premier structural engineers take us on a journey through the history of architectural and structural catastrophes, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to more recent disasters such as the Ronan Point Tower in London, the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a book that delights as it instructs, an easily digested feast of architectural flops and flummoxes, whether caused by natural disaster or human error, or both.