Mario Salvadori

Matthys Levy

Takes readers on a journey through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from the Parthenon to the Tower of Pisa to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

How Structures Fail

Why Buildings Fall Down

Richard Panchyk

Explains how cities obtain water, gas, and electricity and how these infrastructure systems developed along with the cities themselves; and provides experiments, games, and construction diagrams for interactive learning.

How Infrastructure Works : Projects and Principles for Beginners

Engineering the City

Building Eden is Matthys Levy's first novel, a thriller with subject matter he is intimately familiar with. A promising architect, Philip Corta, has the opportunity of a lifetime, the design of a major office/residential complex on New York's west side, The Eden Center. The project endures many major setbacks resulting from the arrogance and shallow-minded behavior of the developer, corruption in City Hall, sabotage and murder by organized criminals, and recurring uncertainties about financing. Despite these and other setbacks, the project advances on schedule through 2001 until the events of 9/11 lead to personal tragedy and a change of direction that affects the project and all of the members of the design/construction team.

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