← Back to discovery

Building Big

David Macaulay

2000192 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000WGBH · ENG
  • 2000Houghton Mifflin · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780395963319
  • 2004Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780547348438
  • 2004Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780606303064
  • 2004Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780618465279
PlayfulWhimsicalShort readCreativity

This book accompanies the PBS series "Building Big" ("Bridges", "Domes", "Skyscrapers", "Dams", and "Tunnels"). Using some but not all of the examples chosen for the films, this book focuses entirely on the connections between the main planning and design problems that had to be solved and the solutions that were eventually built.

Worth knowing

Written forMiddle grade
How do you feel?

More in Playful