Mosque
By: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780618240340; 9780547015477
Subjects: Mosques; Design and construction
Description: An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth-century Turkey. Through the fictional story and Macaulay's distinctive full-color illustrations, readers will learn not only how such monumental structures were built but also how they functioned in relation to the society they served.
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