Owen Hatherley est un écrivain et journaliste britannique dont le travail explore principalement l'architecture, la politique et la culture. Son écriture se penche sur l'interconnexion de ces domaines, offrant des aperçus percutants sur la manière dont ils façonnent notre monde. À travers ses essais et ses reportages, Hatherley examine de manière critique les tendances sociétales contemporaines et leurs fondements historiques. Ses observations pertinentes et son style distinctif font de son œuvre une lecture captivante pour quiconque s'intéresse aux complexités de la société moderne.
This illustrated guide offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary British architecture, showcasing the work of renowned critics. It delves into the evolution of architectural styles, highlighting key buildings and their significance in modern design. The book combines insightful analysis with striking visuals, making it an essential resource for architecture enthusiasts and professionals alike.
Owen Hatherley takes us on a transcontinental tour of the cities of the former Soviet Union, discovering what they can teach us about changing our cities for the better.
Exploring various UK cities, the book presents a journey through both celebrated and overlooked locales, from Plymouth and Brighton to Belfast and Aberdeen. It delves into the haunting urban landscapes of the Welsh valleys and the often-criticized modernist architecture of Coventry. This narrative serves as a poignant critique of Britain's self-congratulatory atmosphere during events like the jubilee and Olympics, offering a fresh perspective on national identity and urban life.
"'A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it."--Provided by publisher
Darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.
Should Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia andNew Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reasonwhy they should want to unite again with us?
Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it.
The history of Pulp via pop, class war and the erotic city.
How to make a fairer, more just city From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. This essay collection spans a period from immediately before the 2008 financial crash to the year of the pandemic. Against the business-as-usual responses to both crises, Owen Hatherley outlines a vision of the city as both a venue for political debate and dispute as well as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us. Incorporated here are the genres of memoir, history, music and film criticism, as well as portraits of figures who have inspired new ways of looking at cities, such as the architect Zaha Hadid, the activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs, and thinkers such as Mark Fisher and Adam Curtis. Throughout these pieces, Hatherley argues that the only way out of our difficult circumstances is to imagine and try to construct a better modernity.
A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies. -Will Self A lively and gleefully argumentative book. Even when you disagree with Hatherley, he remains interesting. And there is a good chance, depressingly, that he is right about everything. -Jon Day, Guardian Hatherley hunts down his sacred cows hungrily and with brio. It is a ride that you can enjoy even if you don't agree with the direction in which we're heading ... Good iconoclastic fun. - New Statesman Demonstrates the qualities of empathy and social conscience, combined with acute judgement, that confirms Owen Hatherley to be the only true heir today of the great architectural critic Ian Nairn. -Gavin Stamp, Literary Review Combines analysis of the austerity nostalgia phenomenon with a parkour of film, art, graphic design, and especially architecture and urbanism, comparing romantic notions of wartime cohesion to the historical record. - Maclean's The Ministry of Nostalgia is a brisk and bracing polemic about Britain's relationship with its recent history ... Any successful political project must address itself to what's needed right now. Keeping calm and carrying on is about the worst possible response. -Richard Godwin, Evening Standard Reflective and intelligent. - Spectator From the Hardcover edition.