- Bridges, Skyscrapers, Ouvrages pour la jeunesse, Dams
This book accompanies the PBS series "Building Big" ("Bridges", "Domes", "Skyscrapers", "Dams", and "Tunnels"). Using some but not all of the examples chosen for the films, this book focuses entirely on the connections between the main planning and design problems that had to be solved and the solutions that were eventually built.
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Cool, plot-driven, warm and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- David Macaulay
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, WGBH
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606303064
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“All the structures in this book willingly reveal important things about why and how they were built if we know what to look for.”
David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988) and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. Macaulay was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for Black and White (1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay
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