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Building Big: Modern Architecture
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9781668920879
Grade 4-6
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- Learn all about modern architecture with this book packed with full-color photographs
- Book guides the reader through the elements of modern architecture, such as simple forms and clean lines
- Includes a section on designing and building your own modern building model at home
- Glossary, index, and resources section also included for further reading
Description
Learn all about modern architecture in this book full of helpful information, new vocabulary words, and full-color photographs. This book guides you through all the elements of modern architecture—such as clean lines and simple forms—and offers examples along the way. At the end of the book are instructions for how to build your own modern building model at home! Also includes a glossary, index, and a section on resources for further reading. 36 pgs, pb.
Publisher's Description of Building Big: Modern Architecture
Modern architecture includes buildings that embrace clean, simple lines
and forms. This book showcases striking modern buildings--from houses
and offices to museums and performing arts centers--and the architects
who built them. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, author
biography, design activity, and sidebars.
Category Description for Building Big Architecture Series
Learn all about the different kinds of architecture in this fun, easy-to-read book series. Packed with full-color illustrations, fun facts, and tons of architectural knowledge, these books would be a perfect supplement for teaching history or culture, or a perfect guide for learning about architecture. Each book walks through all the elements of that kind of architecture, complete with examples, pictures, and helpful vocabulary words. Books conclude with a challenge to readers to create a model of a building in the style they just learned, guiding them through directions for drawing and creating a model at home. This engages readers beyond the book, teaching them in a hands-on way. A glossary, index, and resources for further reading included as well.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Cherry Lake Press |
| Grades: | 4-6 |
| ISBN: | 9781668920879 |
| Length in Inches: | 9 |
| Width in Inches: | 6.875 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.125 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.2 |
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