Stories by Owen Hatherley
“You could imagine Theresa May looking with profound sympathy at Britlins”
“A lethal failure of oversight, like at Grenfell Tower, was going to happen sooner or later”
“Architects and designers are no good at altering your mental topography”
“However brutal, the Yolocaust website gave meaning to Berlin’s Holocaust memorial”
“Let’s move to radical Essex”
“Vyborg looks like Helsinki might after a long, drawn-out war”
“Hardly any British designers have had a style as instantly recognisable as David King”
“Why not move some of Britain’s political power northwards?”
“Saakashvili didn’t need interesting architects to design the New Georgia”
“Massive, horrible and unavoidable”
“This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city”
“Modern architecture needs projects like this”
“The Japanese House is about fear, imagination, aggression and dreams”
“Belarus is a place that badly needs shaking up”
“With a good culture war, you can ignore the real reason why British transport architecture is so grim”
“The Global South could create a different, and maybe better, kind of modernity”
“Kyiv is a city where any and all public space is seized upon by parasitic capital”
“Europe has been for the lucky few in the UK”
“The cult of self-build and do-it-yourself won’t solve the housing crisis”
“Wouldn’t buildings be better designed by people who lived in the city where they practiced?”
“Postmodernism will not be forgiven lightly for what it did to architectural culture”
“The real problem with all this Fun is that it isn’t really very funny”
