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Indlæser... Mosque (original 2003; udgave 2003)af David Macaulay (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This book is another Macaulay great this time chronicling 1580's mosque creation in the Ottoman Empire. The story uses a narrator to raise and address various engineering problems and both traditional and innovative solutions of the time. There is an emphasis on the prestige and political and economic motivations for the construction in addition to the religious and technical. The illustration is profound and gorgeous and gives a great sense of the mastery of geometry and space true to the skills of the historical artisans and architects who might have worked on such a place of worship, which speaks well of Macaulay’s research into the era and really cultivates an admiration for the genius of the people involved. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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“Gorgeously illustrated . . . Macaulay is renowned for spectacular children’s books with an architectural flavor . . . Mosque is a superbly illustrated and technically engrossing explanation of how a great Turkish mosque complex would be built in about 1600 . . . Frankly, I had no idea that I was interested in how mosques were put together, but I found the subject fascinating. And I learned how to make a brick and build a dome, and also a good deal about the economics of the Ottoman Empire and the role of the mosque in society. Macaulay’s mosque is fictional, but loosely based on those built around Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the late 16th century by Sinan, a great architect of the Ottoman Empire.” —The New York Times