Why Buildings Fall Down by Matthys Levy
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.Matthys Levy is the designer of many iconic buildings and other structures throughout the world, and author of several books.
His previous books include the best-selling classic Why Buildings Fall Down, which established his public reputation for expertise on the causes of major structural failures, including the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. He also wrote (or in some cases co-authored) Structual Designs in Architecture, Why the Earth Quakes, Why the Wind Blows, Earthquake Games, and Engineering in the City.
Building Eden is Levy's first novel, a thriller with subject matter he is intimately familiar with, the design and construction of major buildings in New York City, and the many things that can go wrong. New York structures he has designed and supervised include the Javits Convention Center, the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, and the Marriott Marquis Hotel. He emphasizes that the book and all of his characters are ficticious, and that any similarity to prominent people in the news is purely coincidental.
Levy currently resides in Burlington, Vermont.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393033564 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393033562 |
| Title | Why Buildings Fall Down |
| Author | Matthys Levy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1992-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 334 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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