Owen Hatherley

Everywhere ought to have a series like this.

Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.

They proved American socialism was possible, at least in microcosm.

Just as the theory that image-based feeds instigated the brutalism revival never quite checked out, neither does SOS Brutalism’s stated raison d’être.