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Round buildings, square buildings & buildings that wiggle like a fish
- Title
- Round buildings, square buildings & buildings that wiggle like a fish / by Philip M. Isaacson.
- Author
- Isaacson, Philip M., 1924-2013.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1988], ©1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Bierhorst, Jane Byers
- Description
- 121 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Explores various architectural styles around the world, depicting churches, fortresses, bridges, air terminals, mills, cliff dwellings, tombs, and lighthouses of particular note.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Borzoi book "Borzoi book"
- Awards (note)
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Non-fiction Honor, 1989.
- Contents
- Three wondrous buildings -- Old stones -- Thick walls and thin walls -- Light and color -- Pathways -- Doorways -- Looking up -- Old bones and new bones -- Indoor skies -- Ornaments -- First impressions -- Shapes.
- ISBN
- 0394893824
- 9780394893822
- 0394993829
- 9780394993829
- LCCN
- 87016967
- OCLC
- ocm16227939
- 16227939
- SCSB-2783008
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries