Antifascist Architecture

What does built antifascism look like? And who builds antifascist architecture?

Architects, historians, and theorists have had a weird obsession with fascist architecture since postmodernism. Why? And who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? Antifascist Architecture is the first attempt at creating a working definition of antifascist architecture after academia has spent decades fetishizing fascist architecture.

Brilliant scholarship has of course been presented about anti-colonial architecture, liberation architecture, and so forth. Yet antifascist architecture is an avenue that remains to be explored. This book does just that, offering a kaleidoscopic, peripatetic bricolage of architects who heroically aligned themselves with antifascist struggles, buildings made in the name of antifascism, and a call to arms for antifascist utopian futures. It is written for students and practitioners of architecture, but also activists and scholars in the social sciences who are interested in antifascist history, theory, and practice.

• Explores for the first time the phenomenon of antifascist architecture in distinction from anti-colonial or liberation architecture
• Offers the first working definition of antifascist architecture
• Conveys a concrete vision of how antifascism manifests itself in practice and what form it can take in the built environment

• Written for anyone interested in architecture and antifascist history, theory, and practice

  Autorentext

  Andrew Santa Lucia is an associate professor of practice at Portland State University School of Architecture and the founder of the design firm Office Andorus in Portland, Oregon.

Daniel Jonas Roche is a New York-based journalist and author, and the news editor of The Architect's Newspaper.

Lane Rick is a New York-based architect, artist, and educator. She is the cofounder of Office of Things, a collaborative architecture and design studio.

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What does built antifascism look like? And who builds antifascist architecture?