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There is an interesting cross over between facist, communist and capitalist architecture.
To add to this a little more, it’s interesting to me that Marx had a very different viewpoint on this to both state or capital authoritarians and the modern city-oriented non-authoritarian left.
His view was that there should be no real distinction between urban and rural forms, partially to undermine central power structures and to otherwise make sure that land access was distributed relatively evenly.
That probably looks something more like (squints eyes) modern suburbia than many would like to admit, albeit without strict delineated land ownership, before the idea of the car, and with a more autonomous and active community.
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There is an interesting cross over between facist, communist and capitalist architecture. The tl;dr is when your aim is demonstrating power through architecture, you get similar results.
I almost wrote my dissertation on it. But stupidly fucked about too much, realising too late what a great topic it would be and instead did a very average one on nazi architecture in nazi propaganda.
Mein Kampft has a bit in it discussing the RC+ use of light and other sensory techniques in propaganda. You can make an argument that that influenced Nazis use of light and which were seen by the world at large and influenced how people have gone on to use impact lighting. Maybe.