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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. All parts unopened. Cassete present. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Architecture Pack A fascinating eye-opening journey though history an interactive tour of the structures in which men and women have lived worked prayed and played from the days of the pharaohs right up to tomorrow… a book in which all sorts of buildings rise before us as paper pop-ups pullouts and models (including a working elevator) to give tangible answers to the questions provoked by sights we see every day. Featuring stunning three-dimensional reconstructions of such design masterpieces as Chartres Cathedral Palladio’s Villa Rotonda the Sydney Opera House the John Hancock Center in Chicago Japan’s Golden Pavilion and the world’s newest landmark California’s Getty Center. Also a model of Rietveld’s Schroeder House to construct yourself and an audio tour through the book. How do people relate to their buildings how do homes churches theaters and offices carry out the functions for which they were built? How does an architect’s embryonic idea for a building become a reality? Who were the greatest architects in history and what made them great? How did the Greeks and Romans attain the perfect symmetry of their facades and temples? Why have other ages and cultures either imitated or rejected this ideal How could the preindustrial builders of the Gothic cathedrals make them so tall and complex and yet so stable How can we build ever higher skyscrapers? The most irresistible informative fun-filled creation yet from the wizards who brought us. The Art Pack The Music Pack The Maths Pack The Earts Pack. The Brain Pack & The Rock Pack. (MP)