Built to Last
Built to Last by David Macaulay is a 2010 Arts & Creativity book written by TED speaker David Macaulay, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "An illustrated journey through Rome" (2008), 804K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 2 years after the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 5th of 5 books by David Macaulay on Books Worth Reading (1974–2010), by publication year.
- Edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2010 · 272 pages
The paired TED talk
An illustrated journey through Rome (2008), the TED talk by David Macaulay.
From the publisher
David Macaulay is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books.