Right-Wing Spaces: Political Essays

by Stephan Trüby

Do the emerging forces of the political far right have an architectural and urban planning agenda? This question runs through Right Spaces, a collection of essays written between 2015 and 2020 that anticipated many elements of the current debate. Supplemented by a new, detailed foreword that sheds light on recent international developments, these essays, collated in English for the first time, reveal that architecture has become a central medium of the global authoritarian right, from ethno-nationalists and historical revisionists to libertarians. This development has been accompanied by a policy of low interest rates pursued by the world’s main central banks in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, which led to a rapid increase in construction and a paradigm shift in architecture from a means of creating useful objects and towards a form of asset creation. Highly topical international issue A collection of Stephan Trüby’s widely acclaimed texts on the political dimension of reconstruction: now translated into English Continues the discussion of anti-Semitism and racism in architecture and architectural education

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2021

About the author

The research of Professor Trüby focuses primarily on the architecture and urban planning of the 20th and 21st centuries, in particular on the economics of architecture and urbanism, the elements and syntheses of the architectural space.
Professor Trüby studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. Among his most important academic positions were a visiting professorship position in architecture at Karlsruhe College of Arts and Design, HfG, (2007-2009), heading the postgraduate spatial design program at Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, (2009-2014) and being a lecturer at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University (2012-2014).
He was head of research of the architecture section of the 2014 Venice Biennale and is a regular contributor to the magazines ARCH+ and Archithese.