David Macaulay

Built to Last (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A nomad fashion's a home thats meant to be built and rebuilt. A family tears down an old house and erects a new one in its place. Even the Eiffel Tower wasnt meant to be anything more than temporary. As humans, we dont always build things to endure the test of time. Built to Last brings together the award-winning author and artist David Macaulays creative, exacting thinking about buildings and designs that were crafted with a strength of structure and purpose that defy the everyday: Castle, Cathedral, and Mosque. This gorgeous volume includes newly researched information about each building and how it was built. And, for the first time ever, the Caldecott Honorwinning Castle and Cathedral appear in full colorwith stunning new drawings that enrich the readers understanding of these structures, and capture intriguing new perspectives and details. Just as the buildings themselves were created to last, our interest in the structures themselves, the people who created them, and the purposes for which they were made endures as well. This impeccably researched volumea necessary addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in architecturecelebrates this spirit of endurance and serves as a reminder that building well and leaving something of consequence behind, whether a building, a design, or an idea, is still of the utmost importance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547505688
• Artikelnr.: 37843487

Autorenporträt

David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe?Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post?Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given ?to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.? Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.