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Title: Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture by Mario G. Salvadori, Saralinda Hooker, Christopher Ragus ISBN: 0-393-30676-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 18 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: why they stand
Comment: an excellent laymen's book on the foundations of buildings and bridges
Rating: 4
Summary: Parts you slog through, parts you gobble
Comment: Salvadori clearly explains, with the invaluable aid of lots of little pictures, how and why buildings stand up. There are chapters on cathedrals, the Eiffel Tower, the Hagia Sophia, bridges, domes, and so forth. The chapter on wind is particularly fascinating--I found out a lot of things I'd had no idea of. Other chapters, like "Form-Resistant Structures," were pretty deadly dull. Overall, though, the book was well worth reading. It's not always entertaining, but it's always informative, and sometimes tremendously interesting.
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved it.
Comment: The author's love for the art, science, and engineering of building shines through on every page. If you haven't already you, will soon become fascinated by all that is involved in architeture in this wonderfully written book.
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Title: Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail by Matthys Levy, Kevin Woest, Mario G. Salvadori ISBN: 039331152X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Art of Construction: Projects and Principles for Beginning Engineers and Architects by Saralinda Hooker, Christopher Ragus, Mario G. Salvadori ISBN: 1556520808 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Structures: Or Why Things Dont Fall Down by J. E. Gordon ISBN: 0306812835 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by James Edward Gordon ISBN: 0691023808 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Engineering the City by Matthys Levy, Richard Panchyk ISBN: 1556524196 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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