Baltic Postcards is the first Latvian-language book of translations of Owen Hatherley’s work.
Limited edition of 500 copies
in Latvian
Hardcover
170 × 240 mm
144 pages
ISBN 978–9934-591-11-2
Owen Hatherley is one of the foremost architecture critics and essayists in contemporary Britain. Included in the book series Public Space, Baltic Postcards brings together essays written in recent years that are devoted to the Baltic region—both as a post-Soviet space and as part of the world of European social democracy.
In describing Latvia, Owen has chosen Kuldīga and Ventspils. Owen Hatherley writes about history, contemporary politics and society, and the formation of collective consciousness. He does all this by describing, analysing, and interpreting architecture and the way cities are structured and organised. Hatherley is a militant modernist (his first book was titled Militant Modernism), and he tirelessly fights for a world that is genuinely contemporary (“modern”), for a society that is just, and for cities and architecture designed for the majority rather than for “the one percent of the super-rich.”
Text and photography by Owen Hatherley
Foreword by Kiril Kobrin
Texts translated by
Public Space collection
Edited by Vladimirs Svetlovs and Anna Volkova
Designed by Alexey Murashko
Baltic Postcards is the first Latvian-language book of translations of Owen Hatherley’s work.
Limited edition of 500 copies
in Latvian
Hardcover
170 × 240 mm
144 pages
ISBN 978–9934-591-11-2
Owen Hatherley is one of the foremost architecture critics and essayists in contemporary Britain. Included in the book series Public Space, Baltic Postcards brings together essays written in recent years that are devoted to the Baltic region—both as a post-Soviet space and as part of the world of European social democracy.
In describing Latvia, Owen has chosen Kuldīga and Ventspils. Owen Hatherley writes about history, contemporary politics and society, and the formation of collective consciousness. He does all this by describing, analysing, and interpreting architecture and the way cities are structured and organised. Hatherley is a militant modernist (his first book was titled Militant Modernism), and he tirelessly fights for a world that is genuinely contemporary (“modern”), for a society that is just, and for cities and architecture designed for the majority rather than for “the one percent of the super-rich.”
Text and photography by Owen Hatherley
Foreword by Kiril Kobrin
Texts translated by
Public Space collection
Edited by Vladimirs Svetlovs and Anna Volkova
Designed by Alexey Murashko
