Stephen Bayley

Must we now despise colonial architecture too?

The British Empire’s influence on buildings and street names is another example of the forcible seizure of innocent territories, says Owen Hatherley

The Parliament building in Victoria, British Colombia, designed by the British architect Francis Rattenbury. [Alamy] 
issue 06 August 2022

Here’s a thing. A disturbing book about disturbing cities. And it’s full of loaded questions. Like Hezbollah, the publisher uses the silhouette of an automatic weapon as its logo. This is a trigger warning.

Jonathan Swift wrote:

All poets and philosphers who find  Some favourite system to their minds  In every way to make it fit  Will force all Nature to submit.

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