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    Great Moments in Architecture
    Great Moments in Architecture
    Great Moments in Architecture
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    Great Moments in Architecture

    By David Macaulay

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    A wonderous portfolio that has to be seen to be savored—or even believed for that matter. Here are the plans for the Tower of Pisa—on a skewed drafting table, the Eiffel Tower tipped over across from the Seine, the ruins of a McDonald's stand following some future Vesuvius, the disastrous meeting of the Great and Lesser Walls of China, and many other gems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 19, 1978
    ISBN9780547348643
    Great Moments in Architecture
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    David Macaulay

    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.

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      Humorous tribute to a fine art. My favorites: Tribute to Vinyl Siding.

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    Great Moments in Architecture - David Macaulay

    A portion of this book has appeared in The Atlantic.

    Copyright © 1978 by David Macaulay

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.

    www.hmhco.com

    The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

    Macaulay, David.

    Great moments in architecture.

    1. Architecture—Caricatures and cartoons. 2. American wit and humor, Pictorial. I. Title.

    NC1429.M15A46 720'.9 77-15490

    ISBN 978-0-395-25500-1

    ISBN 978-0-395-26711-0 PBK.

    eISBN 978-0-547-34864-3

    v3.0816

    Preface

    The incredible oeuvre upon which you are about to gaze represents the first serious attempt to assemble between two covers the generally misunderstood and frequently misrepresented drawings of the distinguished twentieth-century draftsman and amateur historian David Macaulay. Although

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