What is the author's style in Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay?

Macaulay presents the novel in a journalistic style, written from the third-person point of view. The book is devoid of fictive elements such as characterization or plot, and although a few individuals are noted by name, they are not supplied with much biographical data. There is no plotting beyond the construction of the cathedral and the events surrounding it. Instead, the book is tightly and successfully focused on the construction of a single fictional cathedral that is representative of a class of buildings constructed during a given historic period.