| Description |
121 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Explores various architectural styles around the world, depicting churches, fortresses, bridges, air terminals, mills, cliff dwellings, tombs, and lighthouses of particular note. |
| Contents |
Three wondrous buildings -- Old stones -- Thick walls and thin walls -- Light and color -- Pathways -- Doorways -- Looking up -- Old bones and new bones -- Indoor skies -- Ornaments -- First impressions -- Shapes. |
| Awards |
Boston Globe/Horn Book Non-fiction Honor, 1989. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Juvenile literature.
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Architecture. |
| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Isaacson, Philip M., 1924- Round buildings, square buildings & buildings that wiggle like a fish. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©1988 (OCoLC)555536304 |
| ISBN |
0394893824 |
|
9780394893822 |
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0394993829 (library binding) |
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9780394993829 (library binding) |
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