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Unbuilding

Unbuilding

by David Macaulay

Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)Juvenile literatureWreckingSkyscrapersBuildings, juvenile literature
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About this book

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.

Themes & subjects

Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)Juvenile literatureWreckingSkyscrapersBuildings, juvenile literatureNew york (n.y.), juvenile literature

About the author

David Macaulay
David Macaulay

2 December 1946

David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988) and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. Macaulay was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for Black and White (1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay

Author

David Macaulay

Pages

78

Read time

≈ 2h

Editions

9

Languages

English, und

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

ISBN

9781439579701

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