It hits in the gut
Will Self, 8 March 2012
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
by Owen Hatherley.
Verso, 371 pp., £9.99, July 2011,978 1 84467 700 9 Show More
by Owen Hatherley.
Verso, 371 pp., £9.99, July 2011,
“... Architecture,’ Owen Hatherley states in his essay ‘The Brutishness of British Modernism’, ‘unlike the other arts, can’t be ignored, can’t be passively consumed, not if you have to live in it.’ His published writings thus far have been a stinging lash across the back of current architectural criticism – a necessary corrective to its supine state ... ”