Architecture against Democracy

Histories of the Nationalist International

Reinhold Martin, Claire Zimmerman

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English

University of Minnesota Press
07 August 2024

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; History of architecture; Political science & theory

Examining architecture's foundational role in the repression of democracy

Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an array of scholars exploring the troubled relationship between architecture and antidemocratic politics. Comprising detailed case studies throughout the world spanning from the early nineteenth century to the present, Architecture against Democracy analyzes crucial occasions when the built environment has been harnessed as an instrument of authoritarian power.

Alongside chapters focusing on paradigmatic episodes from twentieth-century German and Italian fascism, the contributors examine historic and contemporary events and subjects that are organized thematically, including the founding of the Smithsonian Institution, Ellis Island infrastructure, the aftermath of the Paris Commune, Cold War West Germany and Iraq, Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic architecture, and Istanbul's Taksim Square. Through the range and depth of these accounts, Architecture against Democracy presents a selective overview of antidemocratic processes as they unfold in the built environment throughout Western modernity, offering an architectural history of the recent ""nationalist international.""

As new forms of nationalism and authoritarian rule proliferate across the globe, this timely collection offers fresh understandings of the role of architecture in the opposition to democracy.

Contributors: Esra Akcan, Cornell U; Can Bilsel, U of San Diego; Jose H. Bortoluci, Getulio Vargas Foundation; Charles L. Davis II, U of Texas at Austin; Laura diZerega; Eve Duffy, Duke U; Mara Gonzlez Pends, Cornell U; Paul B. Jaskot, Duke U; Ana Mara Len, Harvard U; Ruth W. Lo, Hamilton College; Peter Minosh, Northeastern U; Itohan Osayimwese, Brown U; Kishwar Rizvi, Yale U; Naomi Vaughan; Nader Vossoughian, New York Institute of Technology and Columbia U; Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia U.

Edited by: Reinhold Martin, Claire Zimmerman
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 879g
ISBN: 9781517916756
ISBN 10: 1517916755
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 07 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture at Columbia University. Claire Zimmerman is associate professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International

""Architecture Against Democracy reminds us of the power dynamics embedded in the built environment and the importance of challenging them.""--The Architectural Review ""Martin and Zimmerman have assembled with their authors critical and archival scholarship of the highest order, grounded in regional and historical expertise, and approaching architecture across multiple formats -- not just its construction, theory, and style, but its exhibition, planning, bureaucracy, and embodied performance.""--Places Journal ""A kaleidoscope that is as interesting as it is disturbing.""--Arquitectura Viva