{"product_id":"cathedral-the-story-of-its-construction-by-david-macaulay-copy","title":"“Mosque” by David Macaulay","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAbout David Macaulay\u003cbr\u003eAn award-winning author and illustrator who trained as an architect at the Rhode Island School of Design and then turned his pen to explaining how the world’s great structures were built. Born in England in 1946, he moved to the United States as a boy. He won the Caldecott Medal for “Black and White,” earned Caldecott Honors for “Cathedral” and “Castle,” and wrote the bestselling “The Way Things Work.” In 2006 he received a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. His detailed pen-and-ink drawings delight children and adults alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAbout the Book\u003cbr\u003eIn sixteenth-century Istanbul, a wealthy admiral commissions a mosque and its surrounding complex from Sinan, the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire. Macaulay’s richly detailed color drawings follow every stage of the work, from the foundations to the soaring dome and slender minarets, and reveal the art, faith, and engineering behind one of the world’s great building traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt’s available at Dead Tree Dreams, in-store and online.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Tree Dreams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50400892911893,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/5562\/0373\/files\/1172.jpg?v=1794621964","url":"https:\/\/deadtreedreams.com\/products\/cathedral-the-story-of-its-construction-by-david-macaulay-copy","provider":"Dead Tree Dreams","version":"1.0","type":"link"}