This groundbreaking new book presents 60 projects - past and
present, real and imagined - of 'anarchist' architecture. From junk
playgrounds to Extinction Rebellion in the UK, from Christiania to
the Calais Jungle in Europe, and from Dignity Village to Slab City
in the USA - all are motivated by the core values of autonomy,
voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organisation. 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 60 projects, past and present, that key
into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organised 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-organisation through direct democracy. As the book shows,
there are a vast range of architectural projects that can been seen
to refl ect some or all of these values, whether they are
acknowledged as specifically anarchist or otherwise. Anarchist
values are evident in projects that grow out of romantic notions of
escape - from isolated cabins to intentional communities. Yet, in
contrast, they also manifest in direct action - occupations or
protests that produce micro-countercommunities. Artists also
produce anarchist architecture - intimations of much freer forms of
building cut loose from the demands of moneyed clients; so do
architects and planners who want to involve users in a process
normally restricted to an elite few. Others also imagine new social
realities through speculative proposals. Finally, building without
authority is, for some, a necessity - the thousands of migrants
denied their right to become citizens, even as they have to live
somewhere; or the unhoused of otherwise affl uent cities forced to
build improvised homes for themselves. The result is to
significantly broaden existing ideas about what might constitute
anarchism in architecture and also to argue strongly for its
nurturing in the built environment. Understood in this way,
anarchism off ers a powerful way of reconceptualising architecture
as an emancipatory, inclusive, ecological and egalitarian practice.
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