cover image Lost Buildings: Demolished Destroyed Imagined Reborn

Lost Buildings: Demolished Destroyed Imagined Reborn

Jonathan Glancey, . . Overlook, $60 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-59020-316-3

Glancey invites readers to “dream about” buildings lost to antiquity, war, acts of God and modernization. Architecture and design editor at the Guardian , Glancey doesn't dismiss everything new. What he bemoans is the loss of fine old buildings to generic, cheap new construction or even a parking lot, but in waxing poetic about buildings only imagined in literature, he gets off the point. But overall he offers an entertaining if saddening survey of the long-lost and recently disappeared built landscape. 300 color and b&w illus. (Oct.)