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In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live. (...)
A new kind of bleak : journeys through urban Britain
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In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live. In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, Hatherley takes us from Plymouth and Brighton to Belfast and Aberdeen, by way of the eerie urbanism of the Welsh valleys and the much-mocked splendour of modernist Coventry. Everywhere outside the unreal Southeast, the building has stopped in towns and cities, which languish as they wait for the next bout of self-defeating austerity. Hatherley writes with unrivalled aggression about the disarray of modern Britain, and yet this remains a book about possibilities remembered, about unlikely successes in the midst of seemingly inexorable failure. For as well as trash, ancient and modern, Hatherley finds signs of the hopeful country Britain once was and hints of what it might become.
Urban Theory
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New Labour came to power in 1997 amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, urban environments became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: of finance, property speculation, and the service industry. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage —(...)
A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain (Paperback)
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New Labour came to power in 1997 amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, urban environments became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: of finance, property speculation, and the service industry. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage — the architecture that epitomized an age of greed and selfish aspiration. From riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive “centers” to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s, an emphatic expression of a failed politics.
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The Chaplin machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the international Communist avant-garde, 1917-1937
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"The Chaplin Machine" reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
The Chaplin machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the international Communist avant-garde, 1917-1937
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"The Chaplin Machine" reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
Soviet bus stops 2
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Photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union in this second volume of Soviet Bus Stops, discovering new stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine. Following exhaustive research, he drove more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new examples of this singular architectural form. A(...)
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Soviet bus stops 2
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Photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union in this second volume of Soviet Bus Stops, discovering new stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine. Following exhaustive research, he drove more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new examples of this singular architectural form. A foreword by renowned architecture and culture critic Owen Hatherley reveals new information on the origins of the Soviet bus stop.
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413 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, music ; 31 cm.
Montréal, Québec, Canada : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig : Spector Books, [2015], ©2015
The other architect : another way of building architecture / edited by Giovanna Borasi.
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig : Spector Books, [2015], ©2015
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419 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 18 cm + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 x 11 cm)
Amsterdam : Stichting Roma Publications, 2021.
Superstructures / Experimental Jetset ; annotated by Vasyl Cherepanyn [and nineteen others].
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Amsterdam : Stichting Roma Publications, 2021.
Militant modernism
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This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat. This publication argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics(...)
Militant modernism
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This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat. This publication argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th century. The chapters range from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen. Against the world of 'there is no alternative', this book tries to excavate Modernism’s other futures.
Architectural Theory
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In ''Modern Forms'', Nicolas Grospierre traveled the globe to sample the best modernist buildings from the 20th century. Now, in ''Modern Spaces'', he takes his camera indoors to show how modernist ideas are manifested within the walls of buildings both famous and obscure. Rather than a chronological or geographical tour, these photographs are organized in a visual flow,(...)
Modern spaces: a subjective atlas of 20th-century interiors
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In ''Modern Forms'', Nicolas Grospierre traveled the globe to sample the best modernist buildings from the 20th century. Now, in ''Modern Spaces'', he takes his camera indoors to show how modernist ideas are manifested within the walls of buildings both famous and obscure. Rather than a chronological or geographical tour, these photographs are organized in a visual flow, that allows readers to appreciate similar characteristics in interiors that would normally never be grouped together. Shot in the same distinctive and striking manner as his previous book, these images reveal the forms that define modernism.
Modernism
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This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Joanna Szupinska, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow; and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, June 30-September 23, 2012.
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Skyscraper: Art and architecture against gravity
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This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Joanna Szupinska, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow; and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, June 30-September 23, 2012.
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This seventh volume in Afterall’s Exhibitions Histories series focuses on the radical project ‘an Exhibit’ (at the ICA, London in 1957), which emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities of exhibition-making. A collaboration between two artists, Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, and a critic and curator, Lawrence Alloway, the show was(...)
Exhibition, design, participation: 'an exhibit' 1957 and related projects
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This seventh volume in Afterall’s Exhibitions Histories series focuses on the radical project ‘an Exhibit’ (at the ICA, London in 1957), which emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities of exhibition-making. A collaboration between two artists, Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, and a critic and curator, Lawrence Alloway, the show was simultaneously an investigation into abstract environmental forms and a participatory experiment that would fundamentally transform the role of the viewer.
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