# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-macaulay
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:25:55.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-macaulay"
name: "David Macaulay"
slug: "david-macaulay"
description: "David Macaulay 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."
tagline: "British-born American illustrator and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Macaulay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1946-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.6585
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2204677"
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    url:       "https://davidmacaulay.com"
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    title: "David Macaulay"
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    title: "David Macaulay"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump