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Clear explanations of basic building concepts (cantilevers, arches and domes, reinforced concrete) are balanced with discussions of more abstract principles such as symmetry, geometry, and pattern. But the volume is truly set apart by Biesty’s elaborate, meticulously detailed, and clearly labeled drawings (some stretching across two large-format pages plus two half-page fold-outs). ... Biesty here adds a kaleidoscopic yet tightly integrated visual dimension that will transfix readers.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
A diverse selection of buildings are highlighted... Working with colored pencil, Biesty uses a gentler line than in his hyperattentive Cross-Sections books, but there’s no loss of detail: you could, if so inclined, count the steps leading up to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. Each picture is thoroughly but unobtrusively annotated... The main text has a nice narrative flow that links the buildings and eras together, and Dillon has a gift for evocation as well as explanation. ... [I]ts absorbing pictures and spacious design invite you to start where you like. You’ll go back for more. An index and a timeline, fascinating in its own right, are appended.
—The Horn Book (starred review)
Biesty’s precisely drawn, finely detailed architectural views supply the highlights for this ... survey of homes and prominent buildings through the ages. ... Broad of historical (if not international) scope and with illustrations that richly reward poring over.
—Kirkus Reviews
This large, handsome volume combines broad discussions of architectural history with exceptional drawings of significant buildings from ancient to modern times. ... An English architect, Dillon clearly knows his subject and presents it in a readable way. ... Intricate and precise, Biesty’s colored-pencil drawings offer viewers a good sense of the scale as well as the form and presence of each building. Through his signature cross sections, details of interiors and construction can be seen as well.
—Booklist
The best buildings are more than the sum of their prosaic parts—they are meeting places of imagination and practicality, embodiments of man both as he is and as he aspires to be. It is these rather elusive architectural qualities that Stephen Biesty captures brilliantly in his warm, finely drawn illustrations for "The Story of Buildings." Here, in honey-colored drawings on creamy paper, young readers ages 10-16 (and their parents) can explore famous structures along a timelines from antiquity to the present. ... [A] sympathetic and highly readable chronicle of man's most enduring means of cultural expression.
—The Wall Street Journal
Ambitious... Stephen Biesty supplies his signature cutaways for sixteen of the buildings, and these details, together with truly informative insets, are likely to captivate reader attention.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Patrick Dillon is an architect and historian. He is the author of The Story of Britain from the Norman Conquest to the European union , a narrative history for children, and of two highly acclaimed history books for adults. On writing The Story of Buildings, he says, "My two favorite things are stories and buildings. Telling stories about buildings is as good as it gets." Patrick Dillon lives in London.
Stephen Biesty is the creator of Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide since its publication in 1992. He lives in Somerset, England.
网友对The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond的评论
印刷质量不错，画的也很好！
感觉作者是个很懂建筑建造以及建筑进化的绘画师，很难想象那么精细的透视图和轴测图都是手工画的，还有那些剖面图和拆解图都是手工画的，很牛！
本来是买来送老公的，收到才发现是儿童书！
Good book about buildings - nice, but limited and elementary, history of the buildings featured. This was a gift for 12-year old interested in "building things" and architecture, so he loved it. As an adult and architect myself I found it interesting and well done for 4th thru 8th grades. Maybe applicable for older young adults and even adults, but pretty basic stuff if you know anything about buildings.
The drawings are all isometrics and axonometrics - all pretty much cut from the same cloth. The consistency is nice for beginners, but loses its punch on about the fourth or fifth building. Again, great for elementary, a little too basic for older young adults. Nonetheless, great for our intentions.
purchased July 2015
As a lifelong fan of Stephen Biesty whose bought every book he's illustrated since "Incredible Cross-Sections," I was somewhat disappointed by this book. It provides a decent, although Western-biased, introduction to architecture, starting with the Pyramid of Djoser, and ending with the Pompidou Center in Paris. Patrick Dillon's writing is frequently engaging and does a fine job describing the history of each of the buildings shown within. Unfortunately, Stephen Biesty's artwork is easily the weakest of his career. The building cut-aways, while presented as large fold-outs, are often very sparsely detailed, rather drab looking, and lacking the human detail that makes Biesty's artwork so fascinating.
I'm sure smart kids will love this book, but as an adult who still loves Stephen Biesty, I was a little let down.
This book has beautiful illustrations and wonderful anecdotes about all the buildings it highlights. My husband and I have enjoyed it as much as the grandchildren it was given to (6 and 8 years old).
I teach preschool children, so the grade level was a lot higher than their ability level, yet I absolutely loved learning how complex structures were created throughout civilization. This book would be great for school age children, and teachers who love to read and learn about an eclectic array of subjects.
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