Architecture and anarchism : building without authority /
This groundbreaking new book presents sixty projects, past and present, real and imagined, of 'anarchist' architecture. From junk playgrounds to Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom, from Christiania to the Calais Jungle in Europe, and from Dignity Village to Slab City in the United...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Antepavilion in association with Paul Holberton Publishing,
[2021].
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| Summary: | This groundbreaking new book presents sixty projects, past and present, real and imagined, of 'anarchist' architecture. From junk playgrounds to Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom, from Christiania to the Calais Jungle in Europe, and from Dignity Village to Slab City in the United States, all are motivated by the core values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organization. Taken as a whole, they are meant as an inspiration to build less uniformly, more inclusively and more freely. 'Architecture and Anarchism' documents and illustrates sixty projects, past and present, that key into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organized ways of building. They are what this book calls an 'anarchist' architecture, that is, forms of design and building that embrace the core values of traditional anarchist political theory since its divergence from the mainstream of socialist politics in the 19th century. These are autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organization through direct democracy. As the book shows, there are a vast range of architectural projects that can been seen to reflect some or all of these values, whether they are acknowledged as specifically anarchist or otherwise. Paul Dobraszczyk is a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He is the author of 'Future Cities: Architecture & the Imagination' (2019), 'The Dead City: Urban Ruins & the Spectacle of Decay' (2017), 'Iron, Ornament & Architecture in Victorian Britain' (2014), 'London's Sewer' (2014) and 'Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London's Victorian Sewers' (2009) among others. |
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| Physical Description: | 248 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781913645175 1913645177 |