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Review: Why Buildings Fall Down

By Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori

Posted on 20 April 2003 by Andrew

A clear and entertaining book

Such is our morbid fascination that this book is inevitably more attractive than one called “Why Buildings Stay Up”. That said, I think I have not only learned more about structural engineering than I would have done from a positive counterpart, but I have also learned vastly more about the other factors, human and natural, that influence the ultimate success or failure of structures.

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The Tao of the Architect

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Sunday, March 2, 2003 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Articles on Agile Modeling and Architecture

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