Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

Informationen zum Autor Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received a PhD in 2011 from Birkbeck College, London, for a thesis on Constructivism and Americanism. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal , Architectural Review , Icon , The Guardian , The London Review of Books and New Humanist , and is the author of several books: Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012) and Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015). He also edited and introduced an updated edition of Ian Nairn's Nairn's Towns (Notting Hill Editions, 2013). He lives in Woolwich and Warsaw. Klappentext A scathing, bleakly humorous autopsy of the architectural 'state we're in' looking at the cityscapes that sprung up after 1997, and the riverside apartment complexes, art galleries, shopping malls, call centres and factories turned into expensive lofts that epitomize an age of greed and aspiration. 'This surgical evisceration of the cityscapes of Blairism is required reading' RIBA Journal. Zusammenfassung Darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Hatherley, Hatherley Owen
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9781844677009
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-700-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Travel > Travel guides > Europe; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Urban & municipal planning, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements