To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

by Henry Petroski

Book Overview

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur.

In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065840
• ISBN13: 9780674065840
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.4"