David Macaulay
RISD ’69 [Architecture]
With a mind that works in wonderful ways, David Macaulay explains the world through drawings. He has written and illustrated almost two dozen books, traveling to Rome to write City (1974) and Rome Antics (1997), to Cairo and Luxor for Pyramid (1975) and to the coast of Mexico for Ship (1993). Three years of concentrated research went into The Way Things Work (1988), an international bestseller, which was followed by The New Way Things Work (1998) and companion CD. Building Big (2000) focused on the world’s most remarkable feats of engineering and was released as a combined book and five-part TV series. A Caldecott Medal winner and recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ top honor, Macaulay was also the U.S. nominee for the presitigious 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration.
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