architecture

"Learn how designers and engineers use biomimicry to come up with safer, more sustainable, and energy efficient buildings. This title supports NGSS for Engineering Design"--Amazon.com.

"...examines the history of architecture and the careers of three women who are working as architects today."--Back cover.

Young makers learn how to imagine, inspire, collaborate and problem-solve as they take on four architecture challenges, including constructing their dream playground and building a tiny house for a pet.

Shows how mathematics can be used in Minecraft to build architectual shapes.

Shows how STEAM skills can be used in Minecraft to build irrigation systems and to build structures in and around water.

Explores some of the greatest structures around the world, looking at the styles of architecture, and dicusses how architecture is a "complex endeavor, encompassing a variety of artistic and technical fields to create the spaces where we live, work, play, eat, relax, pray and enjoy ourselves"--adapted from back cover.

"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his studio, frightened his family, and endured much ridicule. What he built was far more influential than is generally understood"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at jobs in the fields of architecture and construction.

Looks at one hundred ideas that changed architecture, focusing on fireplace, floor, wall, column, beam, and other topics.