Scrapers: A Visual Guide to Extraordinary Buildings - Hardcover

Scott, Zack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472247892 ISBN 13: 9781472247896

Verlag: Headline, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

With this exquisite illustrative masterpiece, Zack Scott explores in stunning detail the majestic constructions that humans have created on the surface of our own planet.

This is SCRAPERS, a visual history of man's endeavours to reach higher and higher, through the construction of mind-blowing new buildings.

Zack Scott takes us on an illustrative journey from humankind's first attempts to touch the sky with their creations, to the modern masterpieces of architecture and engineering standing proudly across the globe.

From Stonehenge to the Burj Khalifa; the Taj Mahal to the Shard, Zack shares the little-known facts and fascinating human stories behind the most incredible buildings in the world.

In gorgeous graphic style, SCRAPERS opens our eyes - and our minds - to these true marvels of human architecture.

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ZACK SCOTT joined the Royal Air Force at the age of twenty, where he worked as an aircraft technician for several years. He then returned to civilian life to work on high-speed trains, before pursuing his lifelong passion for design. Zack achieved his degree in graphic design in 2013 and has since been working in-house for a couple of companies, while using his free time to work on writing his books, 2017's Apollo and 2018's Scrapers.

Zack has a keen interest in the sciences and loves to create graphics that make complex ideas easy to digest.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1472247892
• ISBN 13: 9781472247896
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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