Modern Buildings in Britain
Owen Hatherley's illustrated survey of modern architecture in Britain, from Brutalism to recent work, including buildings threatened by demolition.
BookSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Publisher listing for title, author, ISBN and description.
- Penguin: Modern Buildings in Britain
Title, author, Penguin imprint, ISBN 9780141998312, 608 pages, and a description of buildings threatened by demolition.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The publisher page gives 7 April 2022 for ISBN 9780141998312 while also listing a 2024 hardback and a 2022 ebook. The issue date is therefore left out of the CSL record.
- OpenLibrary returned no record for the ISBN; Wikidata search found no item. Both are null after lookup.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Linked in the essay when naming Hatherley as a defender of post-war buildings. The book is a survey of modern architecture generally, not of housing estates only.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
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- Owen Hatherley
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