Janice Weaver

Building America

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Named a 5th- 6th Grade Honor Book by the Austin Young Engineer's Award 2003-2004From old favorites like Monticello, Falling Water, and the Chrysler Building, to lesser-known treasures like Bernard Maybeck's First Church of Christ, Scientist (in Berkeley, California), the buildings that Janice Weaver presents tell the story of a nation and its people. Traveling through almost four hundred years of history - and to all four corners of the continental United States - Building America explores an architecture that is as diverse as the people who created it. Complete with timeline, glossary, and index, this fine introduction to architecture is spl… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Shemie, Bonnie

ISBN: 978-0-88776-606-0
EAN: 9780887766060
Produktnummer: 9466836
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 56 S.
Masse: H28.9 cm x B22.8 cm x D1.5 cm 549 g
Gewicht: 549
Sonstiges: Ab 9 - 12 J.

Über den Autor

Janice Weaver has been working with books all her life - first as an editor, and now as a writer. Building America, her first children's book, has allowed her to pursue a love of architecture that began when she was knee-high to a gargoyle.Bonnie Shemie is a graphic artist, author, and painter with a special interest in architecture. She is the author of Houses of China and the acclaimed Native Dwellings Series, which includes Houses of adobe; Mounds of earth and shell; Houses of hide and earth; Houses of snow, skin and bones; Houses of wood; and Houses of bark. Bonnie Shemie's most recent book is Building Canada.