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Antifascist Architecture

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

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By Andrew Santa Lucia, Daniel Jonas Roche
2026
Hardback
256 pages, 92 color illustrations
17 x 21.8 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-406-8
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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.

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“The book is a timely anti-fascist wake-up call. [ … ] The scholars masterfully blend architectural history and theory, philosophy, and political economy into a kind of standard work on anti-fascist aesthetics. A pioneering academic achievement, it is required reading not only for critical urbanists of all backgrounds, opening up entirely new dimensions. What makes this work—excellently documented, richly illustrated with Lane Rick’s red chalk drawings, and titled in Gothic script in the spirit of Laibach’s “over-affirmation” of fascist iconology—so useful is that it does not stop at a defensive battle cry, but outlines a theoretical concept of its field” Ingo Arend, taz

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