Right-Wing Spaces : Political Essays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trüby, Stephan.

Series:

Bauwelt Fundamente Series

Bauwelt Fundamente Series ; v.179

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right-wing extremists.

Political parties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Right-Wing Spaces Political Essays

Content

Foreword, Five Years On: Right-Wing Spaces, Left-Wing Spaces, Anti-Semitic Spaces

1 Intro: Watershed

2 Right-Wing Spaces: A Selective Literature Review

2.1 'Material is never neutral': Markus Miessen and Zoë Ritts, eds., Para-Platforms: On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism (2019)

2.2 'Fiction of an apolitical orthodoxy': Philipp Oswalt, Bauen am nationalen Haus: Architektur als Identitätspolitik (2023)

2.3 'Old Town and Car Town': Peter Bescherer et al., eds., Urbane Konflikte und die Krise der Demokratie: Stadtentwicklung, Rechtsruck und Soziale Bewegungen (2021)

2.4 'An honest monumental record surrounding us': Robert Bevan's Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past (2022)4141 This section of the chapter first appeared in ' Antimodern, antidemokratisch, revisionistisch: Die extreme Rechte im Stadtraum', dérive, 96 (July-September 2024), https://derive.at/zeitschrift/96/, accessed 7 October 2025.

2.5 'Ersatz Napoleons': Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman, eds., Architecture Against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International (2024)

3 A Typology of Right-Wing Spaces: An International Comparison

3.1 Secluded country houses as bridgeheads

3.2 Settlements and territories as bastions against the imagined 'dying out of the people'

3.3 (Ethno)Nationalist communal experiences in old castles and manor houses and in new churches

3.4 Monuments and reconstruction projects in the cause of a sanitised history

3.5 Right-wing spaces in the media

4 The Erosion of Left-Wing Solidarity with Jews in a Jewish State: The Wave of Support for Hamas post 7 October

4.1 'Occupied Palestine, on both sides of the Green Line': The case of Petti and Hilal (DAAR).

4.2 'Mobile parcel of earth': The case of Léopold Lambert and The Funambulist127127This section first appeared under the title 'Die rechten Sätze der linken Freunde Palästinas,' Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 28 October 2023, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/leopold-lambert-the-funambulist-und-der-hass-auf-israel-19271323.html, accessed 7 October 2025.

4.3 'We stand in opposition': The Call for Immediate Action

4.4 'Dismantlement of Zionist settler-colonialism': The situation at Columbia University's GSAPP135135This section first appeared under the title 'Nicht aus heiterem Himmel', taz, 15 July 2024, https://taz.de/Antisemitismus-an-US-Universitaet/!6023257/, accessed 7 October 2025.

4.5 Consensual shrinkage through projections onto Israel

Notes

1 Right-Wing Spaces: An Introduction (2020)

Right-wing populism, the far right, the extreme right, (neo-)fascism - the terminology explained

Architecture and politics, again

The debate on 'Wir haben das Haus am rechten Fleck' (2018)

The debate on 'Rechte Räume: Bericht einer Europareise', ARCH+, 235 (2019)

Ideological renaissance manifesting as a heightened awareness of ideology

2 Preliminary Remarks on Theory (Theory) (2017)

Grand narratives after the end of grand narratives

The re-emergence of the antagonism between left and right - and its amplification

There is no such thing as 'right-wing' architecture (but there are 'right-wing' spaces)

3 Architecture or (Conservative) Revolution? (2018)

1918 and thereafter: The architecture discourse in the 'Bavarian Soviet Republic'

Flashback: The path to Heimatschutz and the afflictions of Munich-osity

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897)

Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916)

'Heimatschutz' architecture deployed against the historicist 'Heimatstil'.

Reactionaries against the aftermath of 1918

Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1869-1949)

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876-1925)

Leopold Ziegler (1881-1958)

Alexander von Senger (1880-1968)

The 'Conservative Revolution': A post-history under National Socialism

4 Old Wine in New Bottles, or There's No Such Thing as a 'New' Right (2019)

Richard W. Eichler (1921-2014)

Norbert Borrmann (1953-2016)

Christian J. Grothaus (b. 1969)

Claus M. Wolfschlag (b. 1966)

Conclusion

5 Architectural Metapolitics: Of Last and Not-So-Very-Last Germans and Their Spaces (2015)

Homes for the last and not-so-very-last Germans

Settlements to counter the 'dying out of the people'

Ethnonationalist community experiences in stately homes, castles and manors

Inner-city areas and monuments to another German history

Metapolitics: A boomerang

6 The Soft-Pedalling of Brutalised Bourgeois Culture: The New Frankfurt Old Town as a Political Initiative of the Radical Right

David Irving and what followed

The New Frankfurt Old Town as a political initiative of the radical right

The one-dimensional building of an ideal world

7 A Storm of Announcements: Critique of the German Institute of Urban Architecture (2020)

Leipzig Charter (2007), Cologne Declaration (2014), '100% City' (2014), Düsseldorf Declaration (2019) and 'Against Deregulating Düsseldorf!' (2019)

The scientific advisory board of the German Institute of Urban Architecture as a stronghold of reactionary architectural tendencies in Germany

How has this come to pass?

Outlook

8 The Architecture of Neoliberalism Spinning out of Control (2017)

Neoliberalism spinning out of control

Trump Tower vs. Biosphere 2

Neoliberalism, deconstructivism and bank architecture

Parametricism and libertarianism: 666 Fifth Avenue.

9 An Enlightenment of Dialectic: Right-Wing Spaces in the US (2020)

Go West: The virtual extermination of the Indigenous population of North America

North vs. South: From slavery to segregation

Racist terrorism and its spaces

'America First': The New Deal and the 'Old Right' and its implications to date

Donald Trump, or: From gold architecture to the White House

10 'Very fine people on both sides'? Modernity, Architecture and Architectural Historiography (in the Bauhaus Centenary Year) (2019)

Modernity and antiquity

Modernity and violence

Postmodernity and postcolonialism

Modernity rescued three times and no end in view: The 'incomplete project' of modernity, Liquid Modernity and 'altermodernity'

'Very fine people on both sides'? 'Gentle modernity' and Bauhaus black sheep

About the Author

Picture Credits

Index.

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ISBN:

3-0356-2944-7

9783035629446

OCLC:

1583170885