Author Archives: Owen Hatherley

Brexit, a rekindled interest in social housing and the centenary of the Russian Revolution have made for a fruitful literary year. Here are Owen Hatherley’s top architectural picks

Instigated by an unequal and divided populace, St Petersburg was pivotal in a succession of momentous revolutionary upheavals 

In the grip of a vernacular revival, the central insight of the AR’s Townscape remains pertinent

Photographed by Robert Clayton, a new town centre for Lewisham in south London reveals a dispiriting vision of the future

What happens when entirely different lives and economies coexist on the same street?

From erotic Polaroids to Soviet bus stops, Owen Hatherley picks his favourite architecture books of 2015

To mark the 125th anniversary of Konstantin Melnikov’s birth, photographer Denis Esakov has documented the current condition of the Constructivist pioneer’s oeuvre

If the Soviet Bloc prefab craze seems absurd, it did solve a housing crisis

Post-privatisation, the holiday resorts built by socialist governments are a reminder of utopian possibility at the seaside

The recent recasting of Rome’s EUR shows that fascist values never really go out of fashion