Owen Hatherley
“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”
“The places people are staking their lives on now aren’t architectural icons”
“More frightening than American Psycho”
“So spectacularly ill-judged that you almost long for Libeskind’s earnestness”
“What might the future of Scottish architecture be in an independent state?”
“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 project of education-via-marketisation has had ugly results”
“It’s no surprise that the government were reluctant to let members of the public in”
“London’s new typology: the tasteful modernist non-dom investment”
