Building Big - Hardcover

Macaulay, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395963311 ISBN 13: 9780395963319

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000

Synopsis

A companion to a five-part PBS series focuses on the connections between the planning and design problems and the solutions that are finally reached when building bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams. By the author of The New Way Things Work. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395963311
• ISBN 13: 9780395963319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192