Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received a Ph D in 2011 from Birkbeck College, London, for a thesis on Constructivism and Americanism. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and New Humanist, and is the author of several books: Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012) and Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015). He also edited and introduced an updated edition of Ian Nairn”s Nairn”s Towns (Notting Hill Editions, 2013). He lives in Woolwich and Warsaw.
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Owen Hatherley: Landscapes of Communism
When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration of …
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Owen Hatherley: A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laborator …
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Owen Hatherley: A New Kind of Bleak
This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call ‘the progressive nonsense’ of the Big Society agenda. In a journey that begins and ends in th …
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Owen Hatherley: The Chaplin Machine
Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of …
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Owen Hatherley: The Chaplin Machine
Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of …
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Owen Hatherley: The Ministry of Nostalgia
In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a ‘make do and mend’ aesthetic to the growing nostalg …
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Owen Hatherley: Landscapes of Communism
‘In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the …
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Owen Hatherley: Trans-Europe Express
‘A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today’ Owen Jones A searching, timely account of the conditio …
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Owen Hatherley: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clea …
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Owen Hatherley: Paisajes del comunismo
A lo largo del siglo XX, el comunismo tomó el poder en Europa del Este y rehizo la ciudad a su imagen y semejanza. Destruyendo la planificación urbana del pasado imperial, se propuso transformar la v …
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Owen Hatherley: Modern Buildings in Britain
The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work today Modernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built int …
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William Morris: How I Became A Socialist
William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly …
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