Lost Chicago

by David Garrard Lowe

This book has great photographs of many historic building of Chicago that have been torn down. This continues here in Chicago, so books like these will hopefully prevent future generations from letting its historic architecture fall to ruin, eventually replaced by worse and worse cheap, quick modern methods and techniques.

Every Room Tells a Story: Tales from the Pages of Nest Magazine

by Joseph Holtzman (Editor), et al

luxuriously eccentric high design in MilanÉdisappearing igloo dwellersÉa cell in a WomenÕs Correctional FacilityÉ

Nest magazine [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

From the Publisher: Discriminating yet eclectic: nest is where high-style London and Paris interiors meet igloos and prison cells on equal terms. Visual and literary: nest is where those who look and those who read meet on equal terms. Award-winning photographers and writers bring special energy and perception to all..

Object to be destroyed
by Pamela M. Lee, Gordon Matta-Clark

from Amazon.com: Book Description; Although highly regarded during his short life--and honored by artists and architects today--the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts."

I highly recommend this artist.