ArchiTek

(Board book)

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An introduction to architectural creation, the 95 precut cardboard elements in this book can be combined in an infinite variety of ways to build all sorts of fantastical structures. Follow the full-colour idea diagrams to create more than 20 unique projects, then disassemble them and try something different. Developing direction-following skills and 3-D creativity, this kit allows young architects to both learn traditional design rules and break them. Alternate the colour and black-and-white facade graphics to customise your creations - no glue or fasteners needed, just slot into place! The vibrant cutouts increase spatial visualisation skills while giving future architects first-hand experience with colour, form, and pattern. AGES: 8 plus AUTHOR: Dominique Ehrhard is passionate about paper, pop-ups, and architecture. He has worked as a game designer, painter, and author of beautiful books for children with elegant engineering and design since 1986. SELLING POINTS: . Use 95 precut cardboard designs to make an infinite variety of 3-D buildings - no fasteners needed . 7 Follow step-by-step instructions to create more than 20 elegant structures and invent your own . Develops dexterity, reasoning abilities, and spatial visualisation skills in young builders, architects and artists 118 colour and b/w images

Reviews

nbsp;Kids love to build and ArchiTek will keep theand their adultsconstructing creative buildings and other objects for hours. Kids can create the twenty models in either color or black-and-white (which can be colored with permanent markers, if so desired). Each notched piece inter-locks with ease (no glue or other adhesive needed). Between the included model instructions and a childs imagination, ArchiTek contains unlimited possibilities. Kids who like to build with Legos, Magnetic Kits, or even good old-fashioned Lincoln Logs; find construction fascinating; or wonder how things are made, will love ArchiTek.
-- Kidslit Reviews
nbsp;Any kid, who loves to build, create, and use their skills as well as their imagination, is going to enjoy this clever book immensely.

At around 4-5 inches by 4-5 inches this is a small, square, sturdy, and thick book...but it is by no means a board book for young readers. This is a construction set within a book, offering not hours of reading but tons of building fun. The idea behind the book is to give children a chance to discover the small architect inside of them. Each page holds one or more construction pieces (95 in all), which can be slid into each other according to desire or design. The pieces are sturdy and will hold up to being used time and again. There's also an instruction booklet in the first pages, which gives an illustration of various 'buildings' which can be built and directions on how to construct them. They are easy to understand and follow.

Author Bio

Dominique Ehrhard is passionate about paper, pop-ups, and architecture. He has worked as a game designer, painter, and author of beautiful books for children with elegant engineering and design since 1986.