Architecture and Anarchism

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**Architecture and Anarchism** documents and illustrates 60 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 - forms of design and building motivated by the core values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and direct democracy. The projects highlight the stark gap between the autocratic way in which the built environment is generally governed and the aesthetic liberation that is vital to a full human flourishing in cities. They show how authoritarianism can sometimes be held at bay by differing kinds of libertarian politics. Taken as a whole, they are meant as an inspiration to build less uniformly, more inclusively and more freely.

subjects: Architecture,  Architecture and society,  Anarchism,  Anarchism and art,  Pictorial works,  Libertarianism,  Domestic Architecture,  Design and construction,  Building,  Curiosities and wonders,  Eclecticism in architecture,  Headington Shark (Oxford),  Shorten's Sharks!,  Brexit

People: Bill Heine,  John Buckley,  David Graeber (1961-2020),  P.-J Proudhon (1809-1865),  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876),  Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910),  William Morris (1834-1896),  Patrick Geddes (1854-1932),  Jane Jacobs (1916-2006),  Richard Sennett (1943-),  Charles Jencks (1939-2019),  Roman Mars,  Kurt Kohlstedt,  Paul Goodman (1911-1972),  Colin Ward (1924-2010),  Walter Segal (1907-1985),  Rod Hackney (1942-)

Places: Columbia Wharf (Hackney),  Regent's Canal,  Upper Heyford,  London (England),  Christiania (Copenhagen, Denmark),  Slab City,  La ZAD,  Grow Heathrow,  Open City (Chile),  Tahir Square (Egypt),  Kowloon Walled City (Kowloon, China),  Auroville (India),  Calais Jungle (France),  Black Road (Macclesfield),  Granby Four Streets (Liverpool)

Times: 30 August 2020,  1990,  1986,  1991,  2017,  2019,  18 September 2020