Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture, (Paperback)

from janemarieprice

This is a good basic overview of structural principles and how they work. The writing style grated on me a bit, but I got used to it after a while. I'd recommend for anyone who has a basic interest...

from stormdog

This had a lot of great information for someone like me; an interested layperson with no professional design training. The style is a classic sort of stuffy academic prose, and in places goes on at...

from sarcher

This is my second read, the first more than a decade ago. The theoretical chapters near the beginning (loads, materials, beams) are better than the chapters that get caught up in 'explaining archit...

from nbmars

In brief, as the author explains, this book offers the history of some of the great monuments of architecture and an explanation of why they stand up. He describes in detail the challenge of weight...

from DavidGerstel

Salvadori's book, together with its companion volume, Why Buildings Fall Down (an even more gripping read, of course), tells a series of fascinating stories to give us a readable, even entertaining...