Unbuilding
Written and Illustrated by David Macaulay
Published by Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1987)
Paperback, 80 pages
By the end of the 1920s the island of Manhattan was the undisputed skyscraper capital of the world.
"It is not a work of nonfiction but a work of fantasy, and not the story of the making of the skyscraper but the story of the unmaking of a very particular one, the Empire State Building... The exquisite drawing style that marked Mr. Macaulay's earlier works on architecture remains as whimsical as ever." -- The New York Times
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