Matthys Levy – who as a young engineer worked with Weidlinger on Black Rock and later became a founder of WAI, Consulting Engineers, which 2015 became a part of Thornton Tomasetti – served as structural design engineer for hundreds of building and bridge projects. Among them are the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the Javits Convention Center, and the Marriott Marquis Hotel, all in New York City; the Georgia Dome in Atlanta; La Plata Stadium in Argentina; and the World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Levy is author of a series of classic books on structural engineering: Why the Wind Blows: a History of Weather and Global Warming and co-author with Mario Salvadori of Why Buildings Fall Down; Structural Design in Architecture; Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Tsunamis; and Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works, with Richard Panchyk. He is also a novelist. His first novel, a thriller, Building Eden, was published in 2018. His second, the dystopian HEAT: A Tale of Love and Fear in a Climate-Changed World, was published in 2022 and this summer seems more forecast than fiction.
This program is the fourth in a series of events called “In Situ” which looks at towers that relied on concrete for their structure.
You can learn more about the series here: https://skyscraper.org/modern-concrete-skyscraper/
