Owen Hatherley
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Born | Southampton, Hampshire, England | 24 July 1981
Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London Birkbeck, University of London |
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Notable works | A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain The Ministry of Nostalgia |
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Thesis | The Political Aesthetics of Americanism in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-34 (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Esther Leslie |
Website | twitter |
Owen Hatherley (born 24 July 1981 in
Early life
Hatherley was born in Southampton in 1981, growing up in a 1930s suburban estate. He describes his parents as "
Writing
Hatherley started a blog, The Measures Taken,[8] in 2005.[9] He would go on to publish pieces elsewhere, including articles for Socialist Worker from 2006 to 2008, articles for New Humanist since 2007,[10] and articles for Building Design from 2008 to 2014.[11]
Hatherley's first book, Militant Modernism, was published by
His book
Hatherley has written for
In January 2019, Hatherley joined Tribune magazine as the editor for its new Culture section.[19]
Politics
Hatherley has described himself as a communist "at least in the sense in which the word was used in The Communist Manifesto". He wrote that "revolution might be a rather exciting thing, one that would transform the world, and transform space, for the better. Worth doing. Why not try it."[20]
Bibliography
- Militant Modernism (Zero Books, 2009)
- ISBN 978-1-84467-700-9
- Uncommon: An Essay on Zero Books, 2011)
- A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso, 2012). ISBN 978-1-78168-075-9
- Across the Plaza: The Public Voids of the Post-Soviet City (Strelka Press, 2012)
- Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015). ISBN 978-0-14-197589-4
- The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016)
- The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde (Pluto Press, 2016). ISBN 978-0-7453-3601-5
- Trans-Europe Express (Allen Lane, 2018). ISBN 978-0-14-199157-3
- The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (ISBN 978-1-912248-26-1
- Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London (ISBN 978-1-913462-20-8
- Editor of The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs for Open House London (2020)
- Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Verso, 2021). ISBN 978-1-83976-221-5
- Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions (ISBN 978-1-914420-86-3
- Ukrainian Postcards: A Limited eBook in Aid of Ukrainian Workers and Artists (ISBN 978-1-914420-50-4
- Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer (Penguin, 2022). ISBN 978-0-241-53463-2
References
- ^ "Owen Hatherley". Four Thought. 17 November 2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ^ "Socialism Today – Building bloc". socialismtoday.org.
- ^ a b "Militant Modernist: Owen Hatherley -". 13 August 2009.
- ^ Hatherley, Owen (5 August 2014). "England's Dreaming introduced me to power, urbanism and London | Owen Hatherley". The Guardian.
- ^ ""Goldsmiths CCA is a high-end art gallery not a squat, and it is unseemly for it to pretend to be one"". Dezeen. 26 September 2018.
- ^ "'Revisiting Utopia' talk by Owen Hatherley". 20 February 2019.
- ^ Seaton, Lola (12 March 2021). "Owen Hatherley: "I really hoped that with Grenfell the 'metropolitan elite' debate would just die"". New Statesman. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ Hatherley, Owen. The Measures Taken.
- ^ Seaton, Lola. 'Owen Hatherley: “I really hoped that with Grenfell the ‘metropolitan elite’ debate would just die”'. New Statesman. 12 March 2021.
- ^ "Contributor: Owen Hatherley". New Humanist.
- ^ "Contributor: Owen Hatherley". Building Design.
- ^ PD Smith, Militant Modernism, The Guardian, 9 May 2009
- ^ William Wiles, Review: Militant Modernism, Icon
- ^ Jonathan Meades, 'Yesterday's tomorrows', New Statesman, 30 April 2009
- ^ Dan Hicks, Militant Modernism, Planning Perspectives, 25(2) (April 2010)
- ^ Wright, Patrick (24 October 2010). "A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain: Owen Hatherley". Architecture Today. Architecture Today. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (30 July 2015). "Almost Lovable". London Review of Books. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ "The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space | Repeater Books | Repeater Books". Repeater Books. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ Hatherley, Owen (10 January 2019). "Introducing Tribune's Culture Section". Tribune.
- ^ Hatherley, Owen (2015). Landscapes of Communism. Allen Lane.
External links
- The Measures Taken blog
- Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy blog
- 3:AM interview
- An interview with Owen HatherleyAlex Nivenin the Oxonian Review, October 2010
- Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy
- Owen Hatherley on Diffusion.org.uk – 'A History of Municipal Housing' and 'In the Shadow of Senate House'
- 'Olympian Landscape' in Guernica
- An interview with Owen Hatherley on Notebook on Cities and Culture