All articles by Owen Hatherley – Page 2
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OpinionUCL’s new site is not ‘in’ Stratford at all
The planned campus seems designed not to engage with its surroundings
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ReviewAlan Colquhoun: a life in words and buildings
The latest edition of Dutch journal OASE is devoted to the twin careers of Alan Colquhoun, a living architectural legend
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OpinionModernism has lost a sense of purpose
Modern architecture needs to rediscover its original ideas about social context
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OpinionWhat happened to Nairn’s townscape?
Many architects have no idea what to do with ‘thrown together’ British cities
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OpinionHow hi-tech dropped its cutting edge
The Cutty Sark is just the latest example of the Disneyfication of technologically advanced construction
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ReviewConcrete and Culture: A Material History by Adrian Forty
Adrian Forty’s new history of concrete takes an admirably even-handed approach to a material that polarises opinion
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OpinionBritain should try the Red Viennese waltz
The government needs to learn from Vienna’s example of how to create inclusive social housing in city centres
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OpinionInterior design can speak volumes
What happens inside a building says a lot about the success of its architecture
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OpinionWhy leftists should look back in anger
Yes, the left is lacking an urban vision, but the past few decades have left it with few means to develop one
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OpinionIf only stations would drop the shops
How railway stations, such as King’s Cross, allow architects to get round planning rules
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OpinionWho will champion pride in civic building design?
A look at the dark side of urban architecture tours
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OpinionIgnore workers’ conditions at your peril
Few in architecture today think much about the people who actually build buildings
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ReviewCity as a Political Idea
Krzysztof Nawratek’s exploration of urbanisation is a welcome attempt to shake up the consensus
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OpinionA lesson from post-industrial Kent
Industrial wreckage, pleasure boats and an art school make for a unique mixed-use development in Chatham
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OpinionKeep your ideas for the desk drawer
A look back to the 1930s shows how radicalism can thrive — even when it’s not being commissioned
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OpinionDoes Rogers live up to his good words?
Richard Rogers’s oeuvre is a masterclass in separating principles from practice
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Building StudyCity of London: Old Corruption in braced glass
The Occupy encampment makes the perfect backdrop against which to examine the City’s contrasts as Owen Hatherley’s series concludes
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OpinionThe creative power of opposition
Poland’s church architecture reveals the imaginative force of decades working outside the regime
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OpinionCities stand or fall on mediocrity
The standard of everyday buildings defines the architecture of the age
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Building StudyBelfast: a city riven with divisions
The physical barriers built to quell sectarian violence in Belfast feel disturbingly close to home