To my daughter Anna who continues to show me how to see things differently I H
Buildings are like books with stories that last They tell us about our present and also our past The outside of a building says quite a lot About setting about character and even about plot Think of the setting as a building’s address Or its date of construction so you don’t have to guess Look for the characters in each storyline People or animals in the building’s design For plot it’s what happened or what was made there The action the conflict the reason we care