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Owen Hatherley
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Slashers, demons and head exploders: why horror revels in modern architecture
In the 1920s, the traditional haunted house died a death – as home design became all clean lines and bright spaces. But directors soon turned these dirt-free abodes into eerie, alienating, terrifying places
The Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is an old Victorian school that was turned inside out and filled with new modernist interiors in the late 1990s. It looks to the untrained eye like a place of dust
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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
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2010
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9 editions
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
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2016
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5 editions
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Militant Modernism
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2009
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7 editions
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Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings
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2015
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10 editions
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Trans-Europe Express
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2018
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9 editions
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Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
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2020
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A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain
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2012
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9 editions
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Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp
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2011
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4 editions
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The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space
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2018
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3 editions
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Across the Plaza: The Public Voids of the Post-Soviet City
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2012
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3 editions
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“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.”
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
“Brutalist architecture was Modernism's angry underside, and was never, much as some would rather it were, a mere aesthetic style. It was a political aesthetic, an attitude, a weapon, dedicated to the precept that nothing was too good for ordinary people. Now, after decades of neglect, it's devided between 'eyesores' and 'icons'; fine for the Barbican's stockbrokers but unacceptable for the ordinary people who were always its intended clients.”
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
“It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]”
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
― A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
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