Self Realization Publications: Architecture & Urban Studies: Pisa: The Riddle of the Leaning Tower VIDEO, To save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from further leaning and eventual collapse, the Italian government appointed a scientific committee to devise a solution. Filmed over three years, this classic program documents the engineering challenges and the committee’s controversial answer to the structure’s ongoing decline—the most fateful moment in the Tower’s eight centuries of existence. Experts interviewed include John Burland, professor of geotechnics at Imperial College London; Piero Pierotti, professor of medieval architecture at the University of Pisa; and Giorgio Macchi, professor of structural engineering at the University of Pavia. (53 minutes, color)

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Pisa: The Riddle of the Leaning Tower

To save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from further leaning and eventual collapse, the Italian government appointed a scientific committee to devise a solution. Filmed over three years, this classic program documents the engineering challenges and the committee’s controversial answer to the structure’s ongoing decline—the most fateful moment in the Tower’s eight centuries of existence. Experts interviewed include John Burland, professor of geotechnics at Imperial College London; Piero Pierotti, professor of medieval architecture at the University of Pisa; and Giorgio Macchi, professor of structural engineering at the University of Pavia. (53 minutes, color)

Year: 1998
Closed Captioned: No

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