Jeanette Winter’s picture book, The World is Not a Rectangle, brings Zaha’s celebrated designs to life. Winter beautifully illustrates, with her words and pictures, how the landscapes of Zaha’s childhood in Iraq - from grasses and dunes to stones and shells - influenced her architecture later in life.

Maya Lin (born Oct. 5, 1959 in Athens, Ohio) is perhaps best known for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the children’s book Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines tells the inspirational story of just how that came to be.

We are excited to be sharing another book from our home library, Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon. This children’s non-fiction picture book is a biography of Philip Freelon. The beautiful writing of Kelly Starling Lyons with the bright and vibrant images by Laura Freeman take the reader on an inspiring ride of Freelon’s life from his youth to professional practice.

As you can image, our home library is filled with STEAM books. We especially enjoy children’s books about architects, unfortunately they are hard to find. That’s why when we do come across a great one, we love to share it.