
Daniel Jonas Roche
News Editor at The Architect's Newspaper; adjunct professor specializing in antifascist and socialist architecture; co-author of "Antifascist Architecture."
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Jul 7, 2026
ANTIFASCIST ARCHITECTURE - Empire Files LIVE at PSU
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Mike PreissnerHOST
But beyond this very literal example, like deprogramming fascists with architecture, pretty literal anti-fascist architecture, what to you is anti-fascist architecture? And what kind of building is an anti-fascist building?

Daniel Jonas RocheGUEST
Yeah, so to that point, I'll just talk about some of the main figures that we highlight in the book.

Daniel Jonas RocheGUEST
So the first person we talk about in part two, which is the survey, is a Cuban revolutionary architect named Pastorita Nunez Gonzalez.

Daniel Jonas RocheGUEST
Pastorita grew up in destitute poverty on a farm, and very early on she joined the Cuban revolutionary cause.

Daniel Jonas RocheGUEST
Her code name was Augustina, so she was a commando in the Cuban rebel army.

Daniel Jonas RocheGUEST
Not only a commando, but also raising taxes and money to support the revolution.
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Mike PreissnerHOST
What were some moments when you were going through your undergrad education in architecture and your graduate studies But being a political person, having the political beliefs that you have now, or the predecessors to those beliefs, were there particular experiences that I find where you felt things were not clicking, you started noticing the problems early on? I'd like to hear from each of you, how the genesis of this came through this year and earlier studies.