Antifascist Architecture

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 anti-fascism 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.

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 fetishising 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 anti-fascism, 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.