Mosque
Published on 17. April 2019
96 pages
978-0-547-34829-2 (ISBN)
Description
From the award-winning author of
The Way Things Work, a remarkable look at how a sixteenth-century mosque would have been built, in words and pictures.
"Gorgeously illustrated... Macaulay is renowned for spectacular children's books with an architectural flavor... Mosque is a superbly illustrated and technically engrossing explanation of how a great Turkish mosque complex would be built in about 1600... Frankly, I had no idea that I was interested in how mosques were put together, but I found the subject fascinating. And I learned how to make a brick and build a dome, and also a good deal about the economics of the Ottoman Empire and the role of the mosque in society. Macaulay's mosque is fictional, but loosely based on those built around Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the late 16th century by Sinan, a great architect of the Ottoman Empire." - The New York Times
"Gorgeously illustrated... Macaulay is renowned for spectacular children's books with an architectural flavor... Mosque is a superbly illustrated and technically engrossing explanation of how a great Turkish mosque complex would be built in about 1600... Frankly, I had no idea that I was interested in how mosques were put together, but I found the subject fascinating. And I learned how to make a brick and build a dome, and also a good deal about the economics of the Ottoman Empire and the role of the mosque in society. Macaulay's mosque is fictional, but loosely based on those built around Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the late 16th century by Sinan, a great architect of the Ottoman Empire." - The New York Times
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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.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Preface
- Introduction
- Glossary
