The architecture pack : a unique, three-dimensional tour of architecture over the centuries : what architects do, how they do it, and the great buildings they have given us around the world / Ron Van der Meer and Deyan Sudjic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van der Meer, Ron, 1945- co-author.

Sudjic, Deyan, author.

Contributor:

Hiner, Mark.

Fletcher, Corina.

Toy and Movable Books Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--History.

Architecture.

Toy and movable books--Specimens.

Toy and movable books.

Pop-up books--Specimens.

Pop-up books.

Architectural models.

Genre:

Pop-up books.

Toy and movable books.

History.

Specimens.

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. : Distributed by Random House, Inc., ©1997.

Summary:

A three-dimensional tour of architecture over the centuries: what architects do, how they do it, and the great buildings they have given us around the world.

Contents:

Architects and builders

Classical influence

Structure and form

New materials, new shapes

Architecture as art

The changing city

Process.

Notes:

Cover title.

"Design & paper-engineering: Mark Hiner and Corina Fletcher."

Consists of pop-up, pull-out, and press-out sections on folded pages; pocket at front contains red/blue 3-D glasses; pockets at back contain 1 model for assembly (Rietveld's Schröder house), 1 sound cassette (analog; narrated by Deyan Sudjic), 1 pull-out folded sheet (11 x 7 cm)--with title: Timeline of architects and architecture, and 1 booklet (40 pages ; 11 x 7 cm) with title: "Glossary of architects and architecture".

Contains:

Glossary of architects and architecture.

ISBN:

0679431004 :

9780679431008

OCLC:

35600070