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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010)

door Owen Hatherley

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Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry--until the crash. In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage--the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."… (meer)
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Sometimes the descriptions it gives aren't detailed enough without photos to give you a good feel for the buildings talked about, which is a bit frustrating. Like these buildings have so much more of an impact with actual decent photos and then you could let the photos do the talking for some of it

Also way too much use of "neoliberalism" in the introduction and I don't understand half the architecture shit so it's like only half interesting to me but hopefully I'll pick it up more as I go along. Sometimes he's really good at conjuring up an atmosphere and sometimes the architecture stuff I half understand and it makes sense to me and I agree.

Almost feels like a tour of britain where he shits on all buildings except suddenly they'll be one he likes because it's brutalist or whatever and then it's good even though there's no clear distinction of how it effects social environment etc

Also they go on about how good the Nottingham Contemporary is but it's a few shipping containers as a building. Didn't realise it was so easy to be an architect, apparently if I slap a few ugly shipping containers down I'm being "daringly minimalist"

Gonna pause it for now, it has that sort of tone that's all culture and very little politics but in a patronising tone that almost talks down about architecture that's really hard to explain and I probably sound dumb. I dunno I just don't like it much. Not enough about social environment and this sense that everything that matters is aesthetics of a kind. Also at one point there's a reference to "lumpen" as an almost insult which rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I'll like it more some other time ( )
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
Acerbic, and often spot-on. When he isn't spot on though, he fervor makes him sound blinkered and dogmatic (which he would probably cheerfully admit, he is) ( )
  sometimeunderwater | Sep 15, 2014 |
"Property development is the new punk rock."

Britain and America, long separated by a common language, can now see what happens when they both speak concrete. I don't know eff all about British buildings. And though I seem to like architecture, Amazon claims it's my #1 subject, I still only dance about it. Yet this Baedecker's for the 21st century was one of my favourite reads this year.
Going by the reviews and blurbs, I thought this book would be all about what's wrong. It isn't. Hatherly is an excellent writer who does a damn good job of describing places I've never seen in such a way that I understand what he's talking about, and he never hesitates to point out what's right in these cities (Southampton, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Tyneside, Glasgow, Cambridge, The West Riding, Cardiff, Greenwich, Liverpool) when he sees it.
This is very much a book about urban space as well as architecture. A lot of this kind of space is international. I navigate these spaces here. Why are some skyways awful to walk over and others a great deal of fun? He gets into it, and he never forgets the people. If you've ever played Sim-City, or just lived somewhere dreadful, you know that people don't use a space the same way as the little figures in the maquettes. And God help you when the space starts using you.
This is also a melancholy book about boom and bust; how a downtown's unfinished buildings speak both kinds of English, as do those manufacturing spaces that have become shopping space when they're not empty space; and that everyone wants to build housing for the rich but no one else.
I am sitting here leafing through the book feeling sorry it's over.
The small black and white matte photos on every page were fitting and informative. If I take a trip to Sheffield, I will know who to blame. ( )
  dmarsh451 | Apr 1, 2013 |
As usual with Owen Hatherley a deliberately provocative but never less than interesting take on development and regeneration in the major cities of the UK from the latter half of the 20th century onwards. Mr Hatherley has opinions and he is not shy of sharing them. A fan of classical modernism and its offshoot brutalism he has no time for the frippery of what he calls the pseudomodernism of odd shaped buildings with random finishes and cuddly names. The only quarrel I have with him is that though his criticisms regularly hit the spot he doesn't take the time to lay out clearly his own underlying principles. They might be easy enough to distill but it would be nice to have them laid out for us. ( )
  Steve38 | Jan 7, 2013 |
A study of the architecture inspired by the Labour government of 1997 - 2010, with its aspirational belief in the market instead of the collective and its reliance for major public building projects on the Private Finance Initiative, where the private sector builds and leases back to the public sector, thus keeping the costs off the balance sheet but increasing the overall cost to the taxpayer whilst allowing private companies the option of making millions or just walking away. On first glance, the author is scathing about the architectural style of the era; as this is a holding review only, I don't yet know if that's an honest opinion of the architecture, or if it's coloured by his political opinion of the Blair/Brown era. It also looks at cities in overview, so the political viewpoint is probably the more prevalent. There is much architecture of this period that I like, but on the other hand it does tend to lapse into cliché and self-parody all too easily. Illustrations are awful - for an £18 hardback, I expect photographs reproduced better than black & white low-resolution inserts into text that would disgrace a £7 paperback.
  RobertDay | May 17, 2011 |
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This abrasive ramble probes the repeated failure of architects and planners, particularly in the "dispiriting exurbia of Blairite Britain", to enhance the lives of those who live and work in their constructions.
toegevoegd door geocroc | bewerkThe Independent, Christopher Hirst (Aug 19, 2011)
 
...this is a personal, crusading book – not an encyclopedia or a thinktank paper. Like one of the postwar megastructures Hatherley cherishes, it may be a bit jerry-built in places, but it is bold and original, and it may change how you see British cities.

toegevoegd door geocroc | bewerkThe Guardian, Andy Beckett (Oct 23, 2010)
 
This is a book of finespun rage, and at times its message is so miserable that it feels like having your skin scraped away. Its ending is desolate as a Cormac McCarthy novel. Yet its subjects are mere buildings. Who would have thought they could cause so much pain?
toegevoegd door geocroc | bewerkThe Observer, Rowan Moore (Oct 3, 2010)
 
This is an important book that is entirely worthy of the arguments it sets out to provoke. It is genuinely curious as well as being driven by political nostalgia and an anger that may remind us of Hatherley’s mentor Ian Nairn who, if I remember correctly, once stood on the site of a demolished church telling the camera that he could hardly believe he was a member of the same species as the planners and politicians who were presiding over its demolition.
toegevoegd door geocroc | bewerkArchitecture Today, Patrick Wright (Oct 1, 2010)
 
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Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry--until the crash. In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage--the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."

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