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math, architecture, economics, morality

Permajered links to this story of a structural flaw in the Citicorp building.

I’ve got a vague memory that I may have read it 10 years or so back, but it’s worth a re-read.. and definitely worth an initial read.

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3 Responses to “math, architecture, economics, morality”

  1. dearieme Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Marvellous. One nit picked: “It produced heroes, but no villains; everyone connected with the repairs behaved in exemplary fashion” – except the anonymous Trade Union man.

  2. miriam Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Wow.
    I love the linked series of changes in the original design, each made by people unaware of the larger implications…

  3. tjic Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Building large organizations that work is hard.

    We monkeys still haven’t really mastered it.

    Add to that the fact that math and engineering are also recent innovations, and it’s not surprising that the intersection of two hard problems is … a hard problem.