Skyscrapers!: Super Structures to Design & Build

Design the Future, Discover the Past Amateur architects can learn about each stage of skyscraper-making from the planning stage to putting on the ""cladding,"" or exterior, in Skyscrapers! Super Structures to Design and Build by Carol Johmann, illus. by Michael Kline. A brief history of the skyscraper precedes a series of hands-on learning activities, including determining the best foundation and then constructing a frame. The author intersperses information about the Sears Tower, the Woolworth Building and San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid. ( Nov.)