Title: Hillside Building Design and Construction
Description: Building in the hills is an enterprise full of unpleasant surprises and traps just 
waiting to snare the inexperienced. Arthur Levin, a structural engineer and 
architect who has been involved in more than 2,000 hillside projects, offers a 
distillation of his 35 years of experience that will help the uninitiated to avoid 
the otherwise inevitable pitfalls and traps. 
The book has many real life examples of the unexpected encounters with 
unstable land, surface drainage problems, subterranean water, demanding 
owners, uncooperative building inspectors, inexperienced contractors, and 
other examples of the author's triumphs and occasional enlightening failures. 
All of these brief histories are instructive and guaranteed to be of invaluable 
help to the first or second time hillside designer and builder. More than 170 
line drawings illuminate the text.
Subjects: Planning, Hillside architecture, Building sites, Building, Slopes (Soil mechanics)