
Lane Rick
Architect and co-founder of Office of Things; illustrator of "Antifascist Architecture"; adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania.
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Jul 7, 2026
ANTIFASCIST ARCHITECTURE - Empire Files LIVE at PSU
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Mike PreissnerHOST
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?

Lane RickGUEST
There are a lot of books about what makes fascist architecture look like fascist architecture.

Lane RickGUEST
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.

Lane RickGUEST
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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Mike PreissnerHOST
The favorite illustrations from this part also, and I'm thinking about the newspaper, but I'm