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Built to Last
Author | : David Macaulay |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 054750568X |
A nomad fashion's a home that’s 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 wasn’t meant to be anything more than temporary. As humans, we don’t always build things to endure the test of time. Built to Last brings together the award-winning author and artist David Macaulay’s 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 Honor–winning Castle and Cathedral appear in full color—with stunning new drawings that enrich the reader’s 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 volume—a necessary addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in architecture—celebrates 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.
Macaulay: the Shaping of the Historian
Author | : John Leonard Clive |
Publisher | : New York : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Determined to be his own man, he had no sooner achieved financial and political security--in a lucrative post on the Governor-General's Council in India--than the relationship with his beloved sisters so necessary to his emotional security was destroyed. Here is the public Macaulay: cocksure and impetuous, a parvenu lacking the specific gravity of a statesman, and yet speaking out not only for freedom as an abstraction, but concretely for the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics and blacks; envisioning a potential beauty and splendor in industrialization; almost singlehandedly writing a penal code for India; becoming embroiled in the crucial controversy over Indian education (what should be taught and in what language); and forever leaving his mark on Anglo-Indian cultural relations--just as India left its mark on him.
Pocket Sketching
Author | : Kath Macaulay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-04-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781940985626 |
Great Moments in Architecture
Author | : David Macaulay |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0395255007 |
Humorous architectural sketches of known monuments and objects.
Motel of the Mysteries
Author | : David Macaulay |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1979-10-11 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547770723 |
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
Unbuilding
Author | : David Macaulay |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395294574 |
This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.
Castle
Author | : David Macaulay |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395329207 |
"Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales."--Title page verso.