Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream Style:paperback leaving to granddaughter Laura her

leaving to granddaughter Laura her literary aspirations

and puppetry--then traveling all over the map to talk to puppeteers--it seemed incredible that so few people knew of his work

In her first book

Gloriously expansive and fluid pencil and watercolor artwork

heartbreaking

Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream Style:paperback leaving to granddaughter Laura herThe Spanish architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and his son, Rafael Guastavino Jr., designed more than one thousand iconic spaces across New York City and the United States. Written in the voice of the son, who was eight years old in 1881 when he immigrated to America with his father, this is their story. Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities densely packed and built largely of wood