architecture

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.

Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.

"Rafael Guastavino Moreno left his successful career as an architect in Barcelona, Spain, and immigrated to the US in 1881 with his eight-year-old son. American cities--densely packed and built largely of wood--were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino had a solution: The soaring interior spaces created by his tiled vaults and domes made buildings sturdier, fireproof, and beautiful. Told in the voice of the son, Rafael Guastavino Exp?sito, this is their story. Before they were done, the Guastavino Company designed a thousand gorgeous tiled vaults and domes across America, including the New York City Hall Subway Station, the Great Hall of Ellis Island, the Oyster Bar at Grand Central Terminal, the Nebraska State Capitol, and the Boston Public Library"--Provided by the publisher.