Full name: Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail

Authors: Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393311525 039331152X

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. Similar books: Why Buildings Stand Up by Mario Salvadori Building Big by David Macaulay Unbuilding by David Macaulay Shelter by Lloyd Kahn A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley The Small House Book by Jay Shafer Builders of the Pacific Coast by Lloyd Kahn Built to Last by David Macaulay How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski Architecture by Andrew Ballantyne The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert