Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received a PhD from Birkbeck College in 2011 for the thesisThe Political Aesthetics of Americanism, and writes regularly on architecture, culture and politics for Architectural Review, the Guardian,Jacobin and the London Review of Books, among others*.* He has published the following books: Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon – An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012), A New Kind of Bleak (Verso 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016), The Chaplin Machine (Pluto, 2016). Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2018), The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (Repeater, 2018), and Red Metropolis(Repeater, 2020). He is also the editor of The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs (Open House, 2020)

He has edited and introduced an updated edition of Ian Nairn's Nairn's Towns (Notting Hill Editions, 2013), written texts for the exhibition Brutalust: Celebrating Post-War Southampton at the K6 Gallery, contributed a long essay and picture research to Christopher Herwig's Soviet Metro Stations (Fuel, 2019), and introduced William Morris' How I Became A Socialist (Verso, 2020). Between 2006 and 2010 he wrote the blog 'Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy'. He is the culture editor of Tribune.