Fake Architecture: Thinking They’re Smarter Than Galileo
Strength of materials is really an ancient discipline: it was known to man before ancient Egypt. Over the past four centuries, it has been carefully studied, thoroughly researched, and perfected. And yet arrogant people who, through an odd confluence of events, have the power to decide what is to be built where, seem to think that they are above the law: not criminal law, but, rather, the laws of physics. Why do so many “thin” high-rises fail? Their creators believe that since they can ignore decency, aesthetics, economics, good taste and common sense, they can also ignore physics. They are mistaken. Physics is not your junior partner. It cannot be played. It’s just there. 00:00 Not an Engineering Problem 03:19 Strength of Materials 05:45 Roman Concrete 08:56 Flying Buttresses 09:44 The Siege (maybe Leonardo) 11:02 Michelangelo 13:17 Galileo 22:37 The Limits of Math 24:41 The Solution
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