Owen Hatherley received a PhD in 2011 from Birkbeck College, London, for a thesis on Constructivism and Americanism, which was published in 2016 as The Chaplin Machine (Pluto Press). He has had scholarly articles published in The Journal of Architecture, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, among others. He writes regularly for Architects' Journal, Architectural Review, Dezeen, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and New Humanist, and is the author of Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon – An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012), A New Kind of Bleak – Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016) and the forthcoming Trans-Europe Express (Penguin 2017).
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Published in: oDRIn Kazakhstan, architectural heritage is a path into a forgotten futureIn the former capital city of Almaty, the move to catalogue Soviet buildings is an attempt to create an alternative...
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Published in: HomeSlapstick and the Soviet avant-garde: an interview with Owen HatherleyIn the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the Soviet avant-garde looked to Hollywood. We discuss this unlikely...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLook at England's urban spaces: the riots were inevitableWe only had to look at our English urban spaces to predict that riots would someday sweep across our nation. Our...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe occupation of spaceSometimes, the self-referential, apolitical worlds of art and architecture intersect with politics in unexpected...