Owen Hatherley
Biographic Data
| ID | 263445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Hatherley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatherley |
| SIGNATURE | HATHERLEY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Architecture, Design and Environment University of Plymouth Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Architecture of the Future
Labourism
Artificial Islands
The Government of London
Red Metropolis
A Mud-Brick Utopia
Comparing Capitals
In a time of fashionable talk of ‘global cities’, Göran Therborn has produced an antithetical panorama of the capital cities of the world, across all six continents, as centres of political power—combining a sociology and iconography of their lay-outs, buildings, monuments, from DC to Cairo, Brussels to Islamabad. Owen Hatherley reports and assesses his findings
Our monuments to glorious defeat
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the CC BY-NC
Landscapes of Communism
Crimes of the retro‐future
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
The reappraisal of the post-Soviet landscape is in danger of overlooking two of its most important elements: firstly, the mass modernist housing that was more extensive here than probably anywhere else; and secondly, the post-1989 capitalist context of property speculation, office development and decay. These routinely missed landscapes constitute the very things travelled through on the way to utopian, if ruined, monuments, such as those documen…
The Hyperstationary State
Shanghai is invariably used in film sets and popular discourse as an image of the future. But what sort of future can be found here? Is it a qualitative or quantitative advance? Is there any trace in the landscape of China's officially still-Communist ideology? Has the city become so contradictory as to be all-but unreadable? Contemporary Shanghai is often read as a purely capitalist spectacle, with the interruption between the colonial metropoli…
Post-Postmodernism
Fashioning Socialism
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
Crimes of the retro‐future
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
The reappraisal of the post-Soviet landscape is in danger of overlooking two of its most important elements: firstly, the mass modernist housing that was more extensive here than probably anywhere else; and secondly, the post-1989 capitalist context of property speculation, office development and decay. These routinely missed landscapes constitute the very things travelled through on the way to utopian, if ruined, monuments, such as those documen…
Post-Postmodernism
Fashioning Socialism
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
Post-Postmodernism
The Hyperstationary State
Shanghai is invariably used in film sets and popular discourse as an image of the future. But what sort of future can be found here? Is it a qualitative or quantitative advance? Is there any trace in the landscape of China's officially still-Communist ideology? Has the city become so contradictory as to be all-but unreadable? Contemporary Shanghai is often read as a purely capitalist spectacle, with the interruption between the colonial metropoli…
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
The reappraisal of the post-Soviet landscape is in danger of overlooking two of its most important elements: firstly, the mass modernist housing that was more extensive here than probably anywhere else; and secondly, the post-1989 capitalist context of property speculation, office development and decay. These routinely missed landscapes constitute the very things travelled through on the way to utopian, if ruined, monuments, such as those documen…
Landscapes of Communism
Crimes of the retro‐future
Comparing Capitals
In a time of fashionable talk of ‘global cities’, Göran Therborn has produced an antithetical panorama of the capital cities of the world, across all six continents, as centres of political power—combining a sociology and iconography of their lay-outs, buildings, monuments, from DC to Cairo, Brussels to Islamabad. Owen Hatherley reports and assesses his findings
Our monuments to glorious defeat
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the CC BY-NC
A Mud-Brick Utopia
The Government of London
Red Metropolis
Artificial Islands
Labourism
Architecture of the Future
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Communism (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)