Antifacist Architecture Book Talk

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?

Join us for a book talk on Antifascist Architecture: A Genealogy of Antifascist Architects, Buildings, History, and Theory. Co-authors Daniel Jonas Roche and Lane Rick will be in discussion with scholar Maia Simon about their new release, published by Park Books. Roche will do a short live reading and delve into his years-long collaboration with co-author Andrew Santa Lucia on the book, and Rick will give an overview of the book’s illustrations, followed by a Q&A session with Simon.

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More about the book:

Antifascist Architecture by Daniel Jonas Roche and Andrew Santa Lucia, with illustrations by Lane Rick, is the first attempt at creating a working definition of antifascist architecture after academia has spent decades fetishizing fascist architecture.

Brilliant scholarship has been presented about anti-colonial architecture, liberation architecture, and so forth. Yet antifascist architecture is an avenue that remains to be explored. This book, designed by SIGNALS founding principal Chris Grimley, 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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Daniel Jonas Roche is news editor of The Architect’s Newspaper and lecturer at The New School.

Lane Rick is cofounder of Office of Things and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Maia Simon is a PhD candidate in the MIT History, Theory + Criticism of Architecture program.

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