Antifascist Architecture by Andrew Santa Lucia and Daniel Jonas Roche is the first sustained attempt to define a category that scholarship has long overlooked — asking who the antifascist architects are, what antifascist architecture looks like, and what distinguishes it from the related but distinct traditions of anti-colonial, liberation, and militant modernist architecture.
About This Book
Architects, historians, and theorists have spent decades fascinated by fascist architecture — its aesthetics of power, its manipulation of scale and symbol, its persistence in the built environment. Far less attention has been paid to the architects who actively, heroically aligned themselves with antifascist struggles. Santa Lucia and Roche set out to correct that imbalance, assembling a kaleidoscopic genealogy of practices and practitioners from across the twentieth century who worked in the name of antifascism — not merely against fascism as an aesthetic, but for the political and social values that opposed it. The result is part history, part theory, and part call to arms: an argument that architecture has a political responsibility, and that the tradition of antifascist practice offers resources for imagining utopian futures.
Key Features
- The first book to define antifascist architecture as a distinct category within architectural history
- A genealogy spanning the twentieth century and multiple national contexts
- Published by Park Books, 2026
What You'll Discover
- How antifascist architecture differs from anti-colonial, liberation, and militant modernist architecture
- Architects who aligned with antifascist struggles and what that alignment meant for their built work
- The historiographical reasons antifascist practice has been overlooked in favour of fascist aesthetics
- An argument for architecture’s political responsibility and the resources antifascism offers for imagining future practice
About the Author
Andrew Santa Lucia is 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, news editor of The Architect’s Newspaper, and part-time lecturer at The New School.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- Dimensions: 17 x 22 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783038604068
- Publisher: Park Books
- Publication Date: 2026
Perfect For: Architecture students and historians, practitioners engaged with the political dimensions of built form, and scholars in the social sciences interested in antifascist history, theory, and practice