Book
Building Big
- Published
- 2000
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 192
- Words
- 26570
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 9.3
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1260L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
David Macaulay examines how engineers and designers solve the fundamental problems involved in creating bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams, connecting the needs that inspire enormous structures with the logic, materials, and technology that make them possible.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780395963319
- ISBN-10
- 0395963311
Tags
ALSC NotablesArts-ArchitectureBridgeEngineeringNonfictionScience-PhysicsTechnology