You already know how to follow the instructions. This book is for what comes after.
Building LEGO Worlds gives you the toolkit to create environments that feel like real places: landscapes with depth and texture, streets that seem to go somewhere, cities and forests and harbors with their own internal logic.
Start with the building blocks: terrain, plant life, roads, watercraft, trains, and buildings that work across any world you can imagine. Modular by design, so the pieces work together however you choose to combine them.
Then build eleven complete worlds from scratch. Elven Haven. Pirate Cove. Mythic Empire. Japanese Hot Springs Village. Classic Skyscrapers. Modern Metropolis. Boardwalk. Art Deco Futurism. Steampunk. Solarpunk. Cyberpunk. More than 130 models, step by step, with BrickLink part numbers throughout. Each one showing how architecture shapes atmosphere. Not just what to build, but why it works.
Next up: your imagination.
Jeff Friesen is an award-winning LEGO artist and professional photographer. He is the author of seven acclaimed LEGO books, including LEGO Micro Cities, The LEGO Castle Book, LEGO Space Projects, and The LEGO Engineer, which has been translated into multiple languages and featured in the Smithsonian gift guide. His builds have earned The Brothers Brick LEGO Creation of the Year award, frequent features on official LEGO social channels, and a dedicated Instagram following of more than 35,000 fans. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
You already know how to follow the instructions. This book is for what comes after.
Building LEGO Worlds gives you the toolkit to create environments that feel like real places: landscapes with depth and texture, streets that seem to go somewhere, cities and forests and harbors with their own internal logic.
Start with the building blocks: terrain, plant life, roads, watercraft, trains, and buildings that work across any world you can imagine. Modular by design, so the pieces work together however you choose to combine them.
Then build eleven complete worlds from scratch. Elven Haven. Pirate Cove. Mythic Empire. Japanese Hot Springs Village. Classic Skyscrapers. Modern Metropolis. Boardwalk. Art Deco Futurism. Steampunk. Solarpunk. Cyberpunk. More than 130 models, step by step, with BrickLink part numbers throughout. Each one showing how architecture shapes atmosphere. Not just what to build, but why it works.
Next up: your imagination.
Author
Jeff Friesen is an award-winning LEGO artist and professional photographer. He is the author of seven acclaimed LEGO books, including LEGO Micro Cities, The LEGO Castle Book, LEGO Space Projects, and The LEGO Engineer, which has been translated into multiple languages and featured in the Smithsonian gift guide. His builds have earned The Brothers Brick LEGO Creation of the Year award, frequent features on official LEGO social channels, and a dedicated Instagram following of more than 35,000 fans. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
