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

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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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