The Alienation Effect
Hatherley, Owen (Author)
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Owen Hatherley turns to a gentler kind of insurgency in The Alienation Effect - a group biography of the architects, designers and directors from Mitteleuropa who washed up on Britain's shores in the middle of the last century. We already know the assimilated conservatives - Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper - but Hatherley gives us the forgotten radicals who put concrete into our skyline and shook us out of our complacencyGuardian, Best History and Politics Books 2025 - Pratinav AnilImpassioned and erudite, Hatherley writes with panache and never becomes flat-footedly ideological... In drawing ...
ISBN (SKU)
9780141989778
Pages
608
Weight
500g
Dimensions
198x129x35
Imprint
Penguin Books
Published
26, March, 2026
Genres
History
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