David Macaulay
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David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a vis mere junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973. His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) Please do not combine with David Macauley (note spelling!).
Image credit: Wikipedia: David Macaulay at the Mazza Museum 2012 Fall Conference where he received the Mazza Medallion.
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Værker af David Macaulay
Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World (2019) — Forfatter — 67 eksemplarer
Way Things Work game — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
David MaCaulay five volume set architectural drawing books : Pyramid, Ship, Castle, Cathedral, City (1977) 2 eksemplarer
Cathedral 1 eksemplar
Pressure (David Macaulay) 1 eksemplar
Light [movie] 1 eksemplar
The Way Things Work - A Teaching Guide (Experiencing Literature In the Classroom) (1992) 1 eksemplar
Magnets (David Macaulay) 1 eksemplar
Continuous experimentation 1 eksemplar
Building Big: Domes 1 eksemplar
Life as a tree 1 eksemplar
Pyramid / Cathedral: Story of Its Construction / City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction 1 eksemplar
Building Big with David Macaulay 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists (2011) — Illustrator — 204 eksemplarer
For Our Children: A Book to Benefit the Pediatric AIDS Foundation (1991) — Illustrator — 29 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1946-12-02
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK (birth)
- Fødested
- Lancashire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Norwich, Vermont, USA
- Uddannelse
- Rhode Island School of Design (B.Arch.|1969)
- Erhverv
- illustrator
children's book author - Organisationer
- Rhode Island School of Design (instructor)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Charles Frankel Prize (1995)
MacArthur Fellows Program
Bradford Washburn Award
American Institute of Architects Medal (1978)
Chevalier De L’Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres - Oplysning om flertydighed
- Please do not combine with David Macauley (note spelling!).
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Picture book, future archaeologists guess about modern life i Name that Book (april 2014)
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- #845
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- 4.1
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- 17
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- 176
In this generously illustrated book that takes place in the future, North America is already destroyed, having been buried beneath junk mail over 2,000 years ago. Howard stumbles upon an old motel room with a couple of bodies in them, and he interprets everything through a very wrong lens. The most base, disgusting, or mundane items become ceremonial and sacred (the bathroom is the inner sanctum, for example). Yet the items Howard finds are not only there to criticize fast, lazy answers in archaeology--they sometimes reflect poorly on modern priorities. For example, the TV was an altar and the remote a way to stay spiritually connected to it. They shine a light in the room to see not glints of gold, but glints of plastic.
Written in 1979, Motel of the Mysteries is fast becoming a relic itself and interestingly will need more and more interpretation itself. While most items it mentions still exist, some are obsolete and references are made to items that are less and less familiar to us (such as corded phones, the concept of banging on the top and sides of a TV to get it to work, and a list of old cars with animal names that are no longer produced). Yet it makes a timeless point and is so short I would have to consider it an essential archaeology book.… (mere)