The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town! - Softcover

Lyles, Brian; Lyles, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593275714 ISBN 13: 9781593275716

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2014

Synopsis

In The LEGO Neighborhood Book, you’ll create buildings with real-world details like cornices and facades, and try your hand at interior design by filling your buildings with furniture and light fixtures. Then add the finishing touches to your models with plants, traffic lights, scaffolding, and park benches. Snap together a few houses, shops, and apartment buildings to create your own neighborhood!

Inside you’ll find:
–Complete, step-by-step instructions for four multistory buildings
–Dozens of inspiring ideas to use in your own models
–Mini builds for a recliner, old-time lamp post, traffic light, and more
–A gallery of the authors’ designs

For ages 10+

About this title

Review:

A Note From the Authors

We loved playing with LEGO when we were kids, and like a lot of kids, we dreamed of becoming LEGO designers when we grew up. But also like most other kids, we put our LEGO bricks away in the attic when we reached our early teens. When we came back to LEGO as adults, we marveled at the things fans were building—the astounding models featured online. What really turned our heads, though, were the amazing minifig-scale buildings that LEGO had released. There was a wonderful community of builders trying to emulate the “modular building” style and improve upon it, too. We first fell in love with the Fire Brigade (set #10197). The rest, as they say, is history.

This corner hardware store is a piece of classic Americana
View larger This "Stick Style" house recreates the charm of a San Francisco Victorian
View larger This coffeeshop has office space above the store
View larger Mini-modular builds, at just 8 by 8 square, are a great creative challenge
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We’ve built dozens of models since buying our Fire Brigade; there’s just something irresistible about using little building blocks to create models that emulate architectural details, creating a whole miniature world. We wrote this book to share our passion. We hope you get lots of ideas for building your own models in these pages.

About the Author:

Brian Lyles is a professional videographer who runs Brick City Depot, an online repository of detailed LEGO architecture building instructions.
When not running Brick City Depot with his brother Brian, Jason Lyles works as a software developer.

About this edition

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1593275714
• ISBN 13: 9781593275716
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204