Response of Traditional Wooden Japanese Construction. A UC professor analyzes failures of timber frame houses in earthquakes. They are top heavy and have nothing to resist lateral forces.

Designing a home in six easy steps, what to do before CAD.

v-2 Organisation | news | Three vocabularies: Byoungsoo Cho Architects

Elastico.net: USA, 1872-1991, USGS earthquake and dramatic landscape.

41_futuro.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x375 pixels) mini & futuro via fark

IKEA | home | Children's IKEA | Children's furniture | FARTFULL work bench, oh poor trenches

SIGNATURE STYLE: Claude Oakland / Modern homes for the masses

Wired 12.12: Roads Gone Wild via Design Observer--the no-signs, no-stripes approach to traffic calming

Absenter: Opening battered and tough

Sandbag Shelter Prototypes, various locations, 2002-2004, corbeled sand bags reinforced by layers of barbed wire, Cal-Earth Institute, Nader Khalili, US, via Boing Boing

a door to paradise. designboom and cocif international on-line design competition. via BAYA email and Brian Canevari

Wood Foundations wow

Snap search: general structures, a rough search

Areguide.pdf (application/pdf Object), which includes the general structures division statement

GS, download the cheat sheet.

ENTER General Structures Forum - Multiple Choice Divisions - ARE Forum General Structures, where there is a great cheat sheet.

General Structures again from AIA Silicon Valley, the online test is here. Still only 5/10 for this student, not ready to pass.

Amstar Engineering, Inc. - Structures Video Seminar--this page gives instantly recognizable subject headings.

Learning From Accidents and a Terrorist Attack covers normal accidents like Three Mile Island and unusual accidents like 9/11.

The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and protocols. It was improvised by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction. [page 31]

The "first" first responders on 9/11, as in most catastrophes, were private-sector civilians. Because 85 percent of our nation's critical infrastructure is controlled not by government but by the private sector, private-sector civilians are likely to be the first responders in any future catastrophes. [page 317]

House like a studio apartment in a S P A C E B O X - General information via reBlog. Would it apply to the US? Not easily.