Owen Hatherley

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How to make a fairer, more just city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 7786
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9781839762215
• ISBN-10: 1839762217
• Artikelnr.: 59638259

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies. Will Self