Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley is a freelance writer, working regularly for Blueprint, the New Statesman and The Wire, writing about music, film, art and politics but mainly architecture and urbanism, as well as researching a phd thesis on Americanism in the Weimar Republic and the USSR at Birkbeck College.
As an outlet for the non-academic and unpublishable he keeps the weblog sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com, and as more academic site, The Measures Taken themeasurestaken.blogspot.com
His first book, Militant Modernism, a defence of modernism against its defenders, is published by Zero Books in April 2009.
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The most recent stories by Owen Hatherley
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Midtown, the last bastion of shabbiness
29 January 2010
Enjoy it while it lasts, the grimy integrity of this central London patch will soon be sandblasted off the map
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Architectural drawing out of the wilderness
08 January 2010
Laura Oldfield Ford’s ferocious line drawings call for a transformation of everyday space
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‘Sustainability’ is a dangerous mirage
11 December 2009
Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues
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Greenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain
04 December 2009
It’s 10 years since the Greenwich peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour’s wasted opportunities
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Cities of the Lens
20 November 2009
A recent Architecture Foundation debate explores how the camera can help construct an ‘alternative urbanism’
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Where is the Ice Cube of architecture?
13 November 2009
Today the idea of an angry architecture is all but inconceivable
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Cardiff: Baudrillard at the Eisteddfod
06 November 2009
With two districts competing for Cardiff’s administrative crown, the result is a city confused by its architectural patchwork
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Retrospective on the Tyne
30 October 2009
Lit & Phil’s exhibition is a fascinating examination of T Dan Smith’s part in creating Newcastle
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Slow train to our lumpen fantasy past
16 October 2009
Despite renewed interest in their radical edge, our suburbs stand for the failure of idealism
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West Riding: Northern exposure
02 October 2009
The stolid Victorian charms of Leeds and Bradford remain intact despite some horrendous redevelopment
