In Ruins: All that Remains - save up to 35%
Driven by the breath-taking remains of countless classical sites, the crumbling stonework and ivy-trailing walls of ruined buildings have an irresistible allure. Here's our selection of great books on the derelict and decaying, in fact and fiction, from the Walpole's original Gothic creation of the Castle of Otranto to the faded relics of London's historical past.
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Brian Dillon The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has... | Robert Polidori; Thomas J. Sugrue |
Rachel Lichtenstein; Iain Sinclair Combining the history of East End London with personal quest, this book weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, Israel and around Jewish London -... | Paul Talling A record of various London landmarks. It features such landmarks such as: The Victorian Concrete House in East Dulwich; Palmers in Camden Town; and, Strand Tube Station. |
Owen Hatherley Darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built. | Willam Gibson; Greg Girard A spectacular photographic journey through a Shanghai that is unlikely to survive its vision of urban development. |
Alan Weisman Looks to areas of the world that are unoccupied and speaks to experts in fields ranging from nuclear physics to archaeology. This book reveals how the natural world would react... | Henk van Rensbergen 'Abandoned Places II' is the successor of 'Abandoned Places'; a unique photography project. |
Horace Walpole; W.S. Lewis First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. Walpole gives us a series of... | Andrew Moore Moore locates both dignity and tragedy in the city's decline. Beyond their jawdropping content, his photographs inevitably raise the uneasy question of the long-term future of a country in which... |
Ann Radcliffe; Chloe Chard A novel of mystery and suspense in the Gothic style, The Romance of the Forest was considered by contemporary critics to be her finest novel. | Jeff L. Rosenheim A record of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in September 2005. |
Christopher Woodward Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. He examines... | Mary Shelley From the author of Frankenstein: an alternative to the Mayan apocalypse, as humanity meets its end through plague. |
RomanyWG Sit back, hold on and surrender to your imagination as the door to an extraordinary unseen world of beauty in decay is unlocked. | RomanyWG Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in the secret places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of... |