Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaud - Hardcover

Rodriguez, Rachel Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805087451 ISBN 13: 9780805087451

Verlag: HENRY HOLT JUVENILE, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

In a small village in Spain

lives a boy named Antoni Gaudí.



His home is in Catalonia, a place of jagged mountain peaks and silvery olive trees, splashed by the sparkling sea. The wild beauty of this landscape makes a deep impression. He thinks of it as the Great Book of Nature, and he will read from it all of his life.

Gaudí becomes an architect, learning the rules of form and structure that buildings are supposed to follow. But the shapes and colors of the natural world still inspire him, and he works them into his buildings. Leaves climb up walls. Pillars are giant animal feet. A long bench snakes around a playground.

Antoni Gaudí turned nature into art, and in the process he revolutionized the world of architecture.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rachel Rodríguez has published in the Los Angeles Times and aired essays on northern California public radio. She lives in San Francisco. She is the author of Through Georgia’s Eyes and Building on Nature.

JULIE PASCHKIS won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor for Yellow Elephant. She is also the illustrator for the Worldwide Stories for children and lives in Seattle.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HENRY HOLT JUVENILE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805087451
• ISBN 13: 9780805087451
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Paschkis Julie
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
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