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(0)Barbara Beck
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Language
English
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Description
For children with a passion for drawing, or dreams of creating buildings, this book explores how architects really work, taking the young reader through the entire process for planning and designing a house. Learn about an architect's four main drawings: the Site Plan, Floor Plan, Section, and Elevation-including the concept of drawing each plan to scale. Aspiring architects discover design techniques, along with different, exciting architectural...
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
66 p. : ill., plans ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A survey of the homes of thirty kings, emperors, shahs, shoguns, pharoahs and other royalty during the history of civilization. Includes the palaces at Persepolis in Iran, the Alhambra in Spain, the Winter Palace in Russia, the Old Seraglio in Turkey, and the Angkor Thom in Cambodia