Negative Anthropology

An International Comparison of Various Types of Right-Wing Spaces

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  • Stephan Trüby

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https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.15.2.6299

Abstract

Is there an architectural and urban planning agenda at work behind the politics of contemporary (neo-)fascists and populist, radical and extremist right-wing forces? The Right-Wing Spaces research project, which has been running since 2018 at the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory) (IGmA) at the University of Stuttgart, suggests that the answer to this question is fairly unequivocal, at least in the German context: ‘architecture … seems to have become a key tool of an authoritarian, populist right with a revisionist take on history.’[i] The interim findings of the project were presented in ‘Rechte Räume: Bericht einer Europareise’ (Right-wing spaces: report on a journey through Europe), ARCH+ 235 (2019), an issue that was guest-curated by IGmA, as well as in my 2020 essay collection Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (Right-wing spaces: political essays and conversations).

 

[i] Stephan Trüby, Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2020), 138. The Right-Wing Spaces research project is headed by Philipp Krüpe (IGmA) and myself, https://www.igma.uni-stuttgart.de/en/research/research-projects/page_0002_0001/.

Author Biography

Stephan Trüby

Stephan Trüby (b. 1970) is professor of architecture and cultural theory and director of the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory) (IGmA) at the University of Stuttgart. Prior to this he was professor of temporary architecture at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (2007–2009), headed up the MAS Scenography/Spatial Design postgraduate programme at Zurich University of the Arts (2009–2014), taught architectural theory at Harvard University (2012–2014) and was professor of architecture and cultural theory at the Technical University of Munich (2014–2018). Major publications include Exit-Architecture: Design Between War and Peace  (Springer, 2008), The World of Madelon Vriesendorp (AA Publications, 2008, with Shumon Basar), Germania, Venezia: The German Entries to the Venice Architecture Biennale since 1991 – An Oral History  (Fink, 2016, with Verena Hartbaum), Absolute Architekturbeginner: Schriften 2004–2014 (Fink, 2017), Geschichte des Korridors (Fink, 2018) and Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (Birkhäuser, 2020).

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Published

2022-05-31

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2021): Issue # 29 | Autumn/ Winter 2021 |The Architecture of Populism: Media, Politics and Aesthetics

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