Architecture Against Architecture: Reinier de Graaf, Owen Hatherley, Maria Lisogorskaya and Rowan Moore

Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect and writer. He is a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and co-founder of its think-tank, AMO. He is the author of Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession and architect, verb.: The New Language of Building as well as the novel The Masterplan. He lives in Amsterdam.

Owen Hatherley is a writer and editor living in south-east London. As a freelance writer, he most often writes for Architectural Review , Jacobin, the London Review of Books, Sidecar and Tribune. He has authored seventeen books on aesthetics and politics, including Militant Modernism (Zer0, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015) , Red Metropolis (Repeater, 2020) and Modern Buildings in Britain – a Gazetteer (Penguin, 2022). 

Maria Lisogorskaya is an architect, artist, and co-founding partner of Assemble, a London-based collective working across architecture, art and design. She has led a wide range of projects and held international visiting professorships.

Rowan Moore is Architecture Critic of The Observer. He was formerly Director of the Architecture Foundation, Architecture Critic of the Evening Standard and Editor of Blueprint magazine. His most recent book is Property, the Myth that Built the World, published by Faber in 2023. Previous books include Slow Burn City (Picador 2016), which explores the transformations of London in the 21st century, and Why We Build (Picador 2012).