Stories by Owen Hatherley
“Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites”
“Some comics have been more nuanced about modern architecture than a lot of the published histories”
“The basic foolishness is compounded by a screamingly patronising name – Whey Aye”
“What could Foster bring to social housing today?”
“Bauhaus just wasn’t British”
“Dictatorship in the 21st century looks like London or New York”
“The future of Ukrainian architecture could be collective, lightweight and public”
“Designing and writing about a building are very different processes of thought”
“These are not the moves of a city that is proud of its architecture”
“Can modernism be explained without an architectural education?”
“London streets don’t need to look like a 1940s that never happened”
“Astana is a metropolis of obsolescence”
“High-tech now looks very much like another post-imperial delusion”
“The Law and Justice party faces re-election in Poland and the churches have been their foremost propagandists”
“We couldn’t stop Balfron Tower from being privatised. In fact we probably helped it along”
“We should applaud Tate Modern’s victory over the residents of Neo Bankside”
“To change Sheffield for the better, the answer might lie in anger and civic action”
“Goldsmiths CCA is an art gallery not a squat, and it is unseemly for it to pretend to be one”
“Edward Burtynsky is one of the most interesting photographers of buildings”
“High-tech never went away, though many wish it had”
“What is happening at Sewoon Sangga is, quietly, quite extraordinary”
“The only living Russian architect well-known abroad is a former fantasist”
