David Macaulay Quote

These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence.

David Macaulay

These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence.

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About David Macaulay

David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) 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.
In 2006, Macaulay was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for his book Black and White, published in 1990.