The Alienation Effect How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century

Owen Hatherley turns to a gentler kind of insurgency in The Alienation Effect - a group biography of the architects, designers and directors from Mitteleuropa who washed up on Britain's shores in the middle of the last century. We already know the assimilated conservatives - Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper - but Hatherley gives us the forgotten radicals who put concrete into our skyline and shook us out of our complacency Pratinav Anil Guardian, Best History and Politics Books 2025