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Lane Rick

Lane Rick

Architect and co-founder of Office of Things; illustrator of "Antifascist Architecture"; adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania.

Jul 7, 2026

8:56
For a layperson, if we're trying to understand fascist architecture, are there characteristics, if I'm looking at something, what are the fascist stylistic characteristics that I can determine by simply looking at it visually?
9:09
So first off, thanks so much for having us at this locale today.
9:16
But I think I would flip that question on its head.
9:21
There are a lot of books about what makes fascist architecture look like fascist architecture.
9:29
You could go to the library, you could go find them, go read them.
9:33
There are all these qualities, a lot of them are very much aligned with modernism and we see that all over the place and that's an aesthetic look that has been associated and then disassociated and is still fundamentally associated with fascism.
9:50
What I actually really appreciate about Dan and Andrew's work is asking what architectures are associated with the people who are fighting against the fascists.

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52:20
The favorite illustrations from this part also, and I'm thinking about the newspaper, but I'm

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