This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Many people are not shy in expressing disdain for the kind of ...

Urban explorer Andre Govia talks to Co.Design about the risks and rewards behind the scenes of his latest book, Abandoned Planet. Andre Govia describes himself as “addicted to decay.” The U.K.-based ...

Lately, architects are sharing an increasing captivation with ruins. As our technologies for envisioning the buildings of the future become ever-more accurate – enabling us not only to walk through, ...

Abandoned buildings are the aesthetic choice for some couples and their wedding photography. By Michael T. Luongo About half of all marriages end up in ruins. A few start out that way. For some ...

So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins, dramatizes spaces but never seeks out the people that inhabit and transform them, and romanticizes ...