‘Meticulously researched ... Hatherley is an exhilarating guide’ – Jackie Wullschläger in the Financial Times 

Owen Hatherley writes and speaks widely about aesthetics, politics, architecture and other topics. He contributes to the Architectural Review, Jacobin, the London Review of Books, Sidecar and Tribune. He has published numerous books including Militant Modernism (2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010), Landscapes of Communism (2015), Red Metropolis (2020), Modern Buildings in Britain – a Gazetteer (2022), Transitional Objects (2023) and Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects (2024). We are delighted to welcome him to talk about The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century (2025). This is an absorbing, carefully researched, detailed history of Central European artists and intellectuals, explaining their significant influence on British public life between the 1930s and 1970s.