Owen Hatherley Book order

Set in the 1930s, the narrative explores the impact of refugees fleeing fascism in Europe, particularly Jewish individuals, on British society. Their arrival introduced transformative ideas in art, politics, and architecture, significantly shaping modern Britain. The book delves into how these revolutionary concepts influenced the cultural landscape and contributed to the evolution of British identity during a tumultuous period.

A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects is an insightful exploration of the remnants of a social democratic America and a thought-provoking argument about its future. The book traces the rise of a 1960s urban ideology that celebrated bottom-up, organic city development while criticising state-led planning that resulted in lifeless, sterile "projects." Using walking as a method, the author tests these ideas across New York City, with a brief interlude in Washington, DC, examining a wide array of urban developments. Key areas explored: - Cultural complexes in Manhattan - New Deal-era public housing in Brooklyn, Harlem, and Queens - Roosevelt Island’s social experiment - Communist housing co-operatives in the Bronx - Union-led rebuilding of the Lower East Side - DC's Metro system By walking through these spaces, the book reveals that, despite their flaws, fragments of a more equal society were built in the past and continue to thrive today. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects asks what lessons a new generation of American socialists might learn from these surviving social democratic enclaves as they envision a better future.

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.

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?

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.

Kniha Owena Hatherleyho zkoumá nové pohledy na modernismus 20. století: věnuje se modernímu designu, filmu, popu, pozornost je zaostřena především na architekturu (ať už z hlediska ruského konstruktivismu či britského brutalismu). Dotýká se témat utopických sociálních projektů v první sovětské pětiletce i radikálních vizí Wilhelma Reicha (Sexpol), zkoumajících odcizující efekty každodenního modernistického života ve snaze o transformaci a determinaci nových zítřků. Owen Hatherley přináší ve své monografii hned několik prvků, které mohou být českému diskurzu přínosné. Autor se například nebojí pracovat s levicovými koncepty, ukazuje, že bez hlubokého pochopení komunistické ideologie a praxe nemůžeme pochopit modernistickou kulturu nejen v Sovětském svazu. Kniha je doprovozena obrazovým materiálem a rozsáhlým poznámkovým aparátem. Grafika Kateřina Šuterová.

A polemical history of municipal socialism in London - and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again.

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.

"'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

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.