https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii155/articles/owen-hatherley-architecture-of-the-future
#architecture #socmodernism #owenhatherley
#architecture #socmodernism #owenhatherley
Owen Hatherley, Architecture of the Future?, NLR 155, September–October 2025
The built legacy of the Soviet Bloc is undergoing a dramatic reappraisal, from crumbling concrete brutalism to Instagrammable socmod chic. Hatherley’s critical survey of a growing body of work in this area—examining modernist constructions from Vilnius to Tashkent—asks the question the new studies largely avoid: what, if anything, makes this architecture socialist?
newleftreview.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Alienation Effect by #OwenHatherley #Book #Review – meet the #brutalists
The remarkable story of how #British #culture was transformed by émigré #architects, #filmmakers and #writers
#Art #Architecture #Film #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The remarkable story of how #British #culture was transformed by émigré #architects, #filmmakers and #writers
#Art #Architecture #Film #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists
The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The Alienation Effect by #OwenHatherley #Book #Review – meet the #brutalists
The remarkable story of how #British #culture was transformed by émigré #architects, #filmmakers and #writers
#Art #Architecture #Film #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The remarkable story of how #British #culture was transformed by émigré #architects, #filmmakers and #writers
#Art #Architecture #Film #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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By: owenhatherley on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
By: owenhatherley on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Empire of Sounds: Reconstructing the Japanese Pop of the 1980s
The anime Megazone 23, directed and written by Ishiguro Noboru and produced in 1985, can be cited as an example of an otaku work that reacted sensitively to the self-congratulatory atmosphere of th…
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January 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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By: owenhatherley on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
By: owenhatherley on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Helmsdale Castle location 'owenhatherley' image & overlap of old photo & reconstruction mock-up of Z-Plan held by the Sutherland, Gordon & Sinclair families. Bizarrely castle was demolished in 1970 to make way for a new bridge. #HelmsdaleCastle #MissingScottishCastles
January 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Helmsdale Castle location 'owenhatherley' image & overlap of old photo & reconstruction mock-up of Z-Plan held by the Sutherland, Gordon & Sinclair families. Bizarrely castle was demolished in 1970 to make way for a new bridge. #HelmsdaleCastle #MissingScottishCastles
December 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
@owenhatherley Owen, were you there last night? Sorry if I missed you!
And talking of star contributors, delighted to get my book signed by Claudia Roden, @rubytandoh, @FlipsideKitchen, Jenny Lau, Melek Erdal! Gutted @jeremycorbyn wasn’t there though.
As @demarionunn said in his speech, it really was a case of Avengers Assemble!
#LondonFeedsItself
As @demarionunn said in his speech, it really was a case of Avengers Assemble!
#LondonFeedsItself
January 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
@owenhatherley Owen, were you there last night? Sorry if I missed you!
Does anyone know if Ernö Goldfinger had a favourite typeface, or one that he often used on signage? @tomdyckhoff @sundaegirl @owenhatherley @Theo_Inglis @entschwindet
December 2, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Does anyone know if Ernö Goldfinger had a favourite typeface, or one that he often used on signage? @tomdyckhoff @sundaegirl @owenhatherley @Theo_Inglis @entschwindet
Reminder that this wed (3 April) at 7pm at @HousmansBooks i will be talking with @owenhatherley about A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE ONCE A WEEK, the cultural contribution & politics of the UK Music Press (1960s-80s) and lots more! Please drop by! Details: https://buff.ly/2PnQwRM
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November 28, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Reminder that this wed (3 April) at 7pm at @HousmansBooks i will be talking with @owenhatherley about A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE ONCE A WEEK, the cultural contribution & politics of the UK Music Press (1960s-80s) and lots more! Please drop by! Details: https://buff.ly/2PnQwRM
Another book event: @owenhatherley will be asking me (=@dubdobdee) testing questions about topics arising at @HousmansBooks this coming Wed (3 April). Details here: https://buff.ly/2PnQwRM
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January 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Another book event: @owenhatherley will be asking me (=@dubdobdee) testing questions about topics arising at @HousmansBooks this coming Wed (3 April). Details here: https://buff.ly/2PnQwRM
I'll be talking about A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE with @owenhatherley next Wednesday (3 April) at Housmans Bookshop, entry £3 redeemable, tickets here: https://billetto.co.uk/e/the-unruly-curiosity-of-the-uk-music-press-in-the-1960s-80s-with-mark-sinker-and-owen-hatherley-tickets-339154
‘The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-...
An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and c...
billetto.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 8:17 AM
I'll be talking about A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE with @owenhatherley next Wednesday (3 April) at Housmans Bookshop, entry £3 redeemable, tickets here: https://billetto.co.uk/e/the-unruly-curiosity-of-the-uk-music-press-in-the-1960s-80s-with-mark-sinker-and-owen-hatherley-tickets-339154
@owenhatherley haha i started an ilx thread abt the same thing as in yr n+1 piece (=use other poems please) https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=105848#unread
December 2, 2024 at 3:55 AM
@owenhatherley haha i started an ilx thread abt the same thing as in yr n+1 piece (=use other poems please) https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=105848#unread
@owenhatherley there's a strong element here of "not being left lining up with the losers": USSR, 70s left, the old & the ill
December 2, 2024 at 6:01 AM
@owenhatherley there's a strong element here of "not being left lining up with the losers": USSR, 70s left, the old & the ill
@owenhatherley tv's morse did good work embedding the idea that the gates merely hide dead bodies, shallow corruption, suburban lubricity
December 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM
@owenhatherley tv's morse did good work embedding the idea that the gates merely hide dead bodies, shallow corruption, suburban lubricity
@owenhatherley owen i don't know if this is yr sort of thing? (this is mark sinker btw) http://bit.ly/HiddenLandscape
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@owenhatherley owen i don't know if this is yr sort of thing? (this is mark sinker btw) http://bit.ly/HiddenLandscape
I'm talking in Balham on Sunday at 6pm @TheBedfordPub with @owenhatherley and Fred Pearce. Come if you can @balhamlitfest
December 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I'm talking in Balham on Sunday at 6pm @TheBedfordPub with @owenhatherley and Fred Pearce. Come if you can @balhamlitfest
@owenhatherley @thelastinstance … so the (not entirely surprising) answer to (a) is p much "he became another d!ck on the internet
December 3, 2024 at 9:21 AM
@owenhatherley @thelastinstance … so the (not entirely surprising) answer to (a) is p much "he became another d!ck on the internet
@owenhatherley @thelastinstance if you have scot-nats much in yr mentions here or on on FB you can hardly escape his presence
December 3, 2024 at 9:26 AM
@owenhatherley @thelastinstance if you have scot-nats much in yr mentions here or on on FB you can hardly escape his presence
@owenhatherley (Seriously, Art of Noise stuff has to be remastered from old vinyl because a load of the tapes ended up in a skip. Anyway)
April 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@owenhatherley (Seriously, Art of Noise stuff has to be remastered from old vinyl because a load of the tapes ended up in a skip. Anyway)
@owenhatherley Sadly the album was never heard because all the tapes were lost shortly before the release date.
April 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
@owenhatherley Sadly the album was never heard because all the tapes were lost shortly before the release date.
@owenhatherley @entschwindet damon runyon uses I but often qualifies it as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around" & etc
December 3, 2024 at 11:06 AM
@owenhatherley @entschwindet damon runyon uses I but often qualifies it as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around" & etc
@owenhatherley @Furmadamadam the pochonbo electronic ensemble
December 3, 2024 at 11:06 AM
@owenhatherley @Furmadamadam the pochonbo electronic ensemble