TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy, Matthys 
AU  - Salvadori, Mario 
TI  - Why Buildings Fall Down: Why Structures Fail
SN  - 9780393311525
U1  - ARCH 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton Company
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Building failure
KW  - Construction failure
KW  - Effondrement
KW  - Structure failure
N1  - 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
ER  -