Michael Bywater

Sic transit: the buildings we treasure most are often the ones we’ve never seen

Two books on loss and ruins by James Crawford and Robert Harbison make for evocative and poignant reading

issue 14 November 2015
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  • Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers

    James Crawford

    Old Street Publishing, pp. 602

  • Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery

    Robert Harbison

    Reaktion Books, pp. 272

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