Building Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide to How Structures Work

Iver Wahl is a licensed architect and a professor at the University of Oklahoma where he teaches structures and architectural design. He is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the Architectural Engineering Institute. The author has conducted disaster site reconnaissance for over fifteen years, sometimes with the International Center for Disaster Research in the United States or in cooperation with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan. This work has included forensic analysis of collapsed buildings during or after earthquakes, typhoons, floods, tornadoes, terrorist bombings, riots, and war. He received awards for his vertical rebound theory which offered an explanation for vertically collapsed buildings in the Kobe earthquake.