Trained as an architect, Mexican artist Jose Dávila had been taking pictures of notable structures across the globe for more than a decade when, in 2008, he began cutting the edifices out of his photos, leaving striking silhouettes. The modified images, which also include pictures he finds through research, reflect “the importance of context in architecture,” Dávila says. “What’s around a building is part of the building itself and vice versa.” Nearly 100 of these works are compiled inThere But Not(powerHouse Books, $40)—from the artist’s first cutout, Luis Barragán’s Mexico City home, to his take on Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, on the cover.
