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Artificial Islands - Adventures in the Dominions by Owen Hatherley
25.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Should Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reason why they should want to unite again with us? Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive pos ...Show more
Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances - Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism by Owen Hatherley
39.99 AUD
Category: History
How to make a fairer, more just city From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as ...Show more
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
"In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: 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). During the course of the twentieth c ...Show more
The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space by Owen Hatherley
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Nearly thirty years after the fall of the USSR, the word "Soviet" should be as meaningless by now as "Hapsburg" or "Hohenzollern." Strangely, though, it endures, as places both inside and outside the former Soviet Union define themselves for or against what happened when it existed. But does that experi ...Show more
The Ministry of Nostalgia Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? In this sharp, witty polemic, award-winning critic Owen Hatherley questions the many ways we have adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty: from ubiquitous "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters, the commercialization of thrift, the added value of the artisanal, ...Show more
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
19.99 AUD
Category: History
In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a 'make do and mend' aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the truth ...Show more
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Trans-Europe Express - Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city," from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen Jones A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the past twenty years European cities have ...Show more
Trans-Europe Express : Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic eg ...Show more
Uncommon - An Essay on Pulp by Owen Hatherley
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', and for ...Show more
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