{"product_id":"so-you-want-to-be-an-architect-a-kids-guide-to-architecture-building-design-blueprints-and-the-creative-thinkers-who-imagine-and-shape-the-spaces-paperback","title":"So You Want To Be An Architect: A Kids' Guide to Architecture, Building Design, Blueprints, and the Creative Thinkers Who Imagine and Shape the Spaces - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda Soules\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER\u003c\/strong\u003e of the \u003cem\u003eLiterary Titan Gold Book Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eSo You Want To Be A...\u003c\/em\u003e Series - 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo You Want to Be an Architect\u003c\/em\u003e - the career book for the kid who can't stop building, drawing, and dreaming up spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor every young reader who builds elaborate worlds out of blocks, notices how a room feels the moment they walk in, or redraws the floor plan of their own house for fun - this beautifully illustrated introduction to architecture was written for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this isn't a book that pretends architecture is only about drawing pretty buildings. It reveals a surprising truth: a great building doesn't start with the building. It starts with people. Before an architect draws a single line, she listens - asking how a family really lives, what they need, what they love. The skill that matters most in architecture isn't drawing at all. 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