Owen Hatherley is a freelance writer, working regularly for Building Design, Blueprint, the New Statesman and The Wire, writing about music, film, art and politics but mainly architecture and urbanism, as well as researching a PhD thesis on Americanism in the Weimar Republic and the USSR at Birkbeck College.
His first book Militant Modernism was published by O Books in 2009. The Guardian described the book as an “intelligent and passionately argued attempt to ‘excavate utopia’ from the ruins of modernism” and an “exhilarating manifesto for a reborn socialist modernism”.
As an outlet for the non-academic and unpublishable he keeps the weblog sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy nastybrutalistandshort and as a more academic site, The Measures Taken
His first book, Militant Modernism, a defence of modernism against its defenders, is published by Zero Books in April 2009.
