"Throwing the Book at Them": RIBA Journal reviews A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Hugh Pearman reviews A Guide of New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley for the RIBA Journal, calling it "an epitaph for the built legacy of the Tony Blair years which, as far as Hatherley is concerned, has about as much staying-power as the collapsed New Labour project."
Hatherley is from the real Left, so he writes with real venom. He is not trained in architecture or art history, so he comes refreshingly free of preconceptions about what buildings it is suitable to like or not like ...
Hatherley is an important new voice. Formidably well-read, he is an amateur in the very best sense. His polemic is deeply felt and, for all his occasional showboating, just ... But this surgical evisceration of the cityscapes of Blairism is required reading.
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