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Architecture and Anarchism

Building without Authority

Paul Dobraszczyk

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English
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
05 August 2021
A groundbreaking look at sixty works of anarchist architecture. This book 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 ""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 nineteenth century. As Architecture and Anarchism shows, a vast range of architectural projects reflects some or all of these values, whether they are acknowledged as specifically anarchist or not. From junk playgrounds to Freetown Christiania, Slab City to the Calais Jungle, isolated cabins to intentional communities-all are motivated by 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. This book broadens existing ideas about what constitutes anarchism in architecture and argues for its nurturing in the built environment. Understood in this way, anarchism offers a powerful way of reconceptualizing architecture as an emancipatory, inclusive, ecological, and egalitarian practice.
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Imprint:   Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 267mm,  Width: 229mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   1.134kg
ISBN:   9781913645175
ISBN 10:   1913645177
Pages:   248
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Paul Dobraszczyk is a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture in at University College London. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination.

Reviews for Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority

Refreshing...a glimpse into self-built projects and communities around the world. * Manchester Review of Books * Provocative. * The Art Newspaper *


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