Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973 - Architecture - 77 pages

Readers worldwide recognize Caldecott Medal winner David Macaulay's imaginary Cathedral of Chutreaux. This critically acclaimed book has been translated into a dozen languages and remains a classic of children's literature and a touchstone for budding architects. Cathedral's numerous awards include a prestigious Caldecott Honor and designation as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year for Macaulay's intricate pen-and-ink illustrations.

Journey back to centuries long ago and visit the fictional people of twelfth-, thirteenth-, and fourteenth-century Europe whose dreams, like Cathedral, stand the test of time.

This title has been selected as a Common Core text exemplar (Grades 6–8, Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Studies).

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apse and choir arcade ARCHITECTURE beautiful cathedral bells bishop of Chutreaux blacksmith building called centerings carved ceiling centering was lowered Chantilly church clerestory colored glass column that supports concrete construct temporary wooden course or layer crypt cut stones cutters and sculptors doors eight inches fastened fifty laborers floor flying buttresses gargoyles Gothic cathedrals ground Hammer hole hundred hung installed layer of webbing masons laid master craftsman master mason master quarryman mixture of beechwood molten mortar was dry mullions nails nave old cathedral once to show ordered from Scandinavia pattern pieces of glass pieces of stone pieces of wood pipe plaster quarry Romanesque roof frame roofers rope rose window sculptures sixty feet Somme valley Spiral Staircase stone arch stone pier stonework supervise fifty appren supported the course templates tenon timber tracery transept TRIFORIUM truss TYMPANUM vault was complete voussoirs webbing stones wooden frame Workshops were built woven twigs

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About the author (1973)

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 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.

Bibliographic information

TitleCathedral: The Story of Its Construction
AuthorDavid Macaulay
Illustrated byDavid Macaulay
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973
ISBN0395316685, 9780395316689
Length77 pages
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