Owen Hatherley
“Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites”
“High-tech now looks very much like another post-imperial delusion”
Architects and critics reveal their architectural guilty pleasures
“Bauhaus just wasn’t British”
“Goldsmiths CCA is an art gallery not a squat, and it is unseemly for it to pretend to be one”
“The future of Ukrainian architecture could be collective, lightweight and public”
“These are not the moves of a city that is proud of its architecture”
“What is happening at Sewoon Sangga is, quietly, quite extraordinary”
“The Garden Bridge’s cancellation provides an opportunity that mustn’t be wasted”
“You could imagine Theresa May looking with profound sympathy at Britlins”
“Belarus is a place that badly needs shaking up”
“Architects and designers are no good at altering your mental topography”
“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”
“Dictatorship in the 21st century looks like London or New York”
“To change Sheffield for the better, the answer might lie in anger and civic action”
“Designing and writing about a building are very different processes of thought”
“High-tech never went away, though many wish it had”
“The only living Russian architect well-known abroad is a former fantasist”
“London streets don’t need to look like a 1940s that never happened”
“A lethal failure of oversight, like at Grenfell Tower, was going to happen sooner or later”
“The Japanese House is about fear, imagination, aggression and dreams”
“However brutal, the Yolocaust website gave meaning to Berlin’s Holocaust memorial”
