What style building do you live in? Is it a skyscraper, a Victorian home, or a modern building? In Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures, readers ages 9 to 12 examine the stories of Women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time.
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She has written more than 15 books for students and young readers, including New Frontiers in Astronomy, The Persian Gulf War and the War in Iraq, and Women Warriors.
About the Author: Elizabeth Schmermund is a writer, editor, scholar, and teacher.
The book also includes a timeline, glossary, and further resources for readers to further investigate the topic.
Sidebars on important female architects throughout history, quotes, and essential questions for readers are included throughout the text in order to encourage critical thinking and self-drawn conclusions.
She has also taught architecture at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maia Small works as an architect and urban designer at the City of San Francisco Planning Department.
Today, she is an architect who designs science labs for universities and other institutions.
Farida Abu-Bakare was born in Qatar and raised in Canada.
Patricia Galv n works in commercial and interior architecture and is the chairwoman for the American Institute of Architects\' Women in Architecture committee.
Art, engineering, science, technology--architecture involves all these disciplines, and more Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures examines the history of architecture and the journey of three Women who are working as architects today.
It\'s architects who figure out what style of building fits best in a certain space, what the structure should look like, how it needs to be built to withstand the environment, and what materials best suit the needs of the people who are using the structure.
Architecture is the planning, designing, and construction of buildings and other structures.
What style building do you live in? Is it a skyscraper, a Victorian home, or a modern building? In Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures, readers ages 9 to 12 examine the stories of Women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time
