Protest movements shape public space not only through their messages but in many cases also
through their-mostly temporary-buildings. Frankfurt's Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM and
Vienna's MAK-Museum of Applied Arts are exploring this thesis in a joint exhibition project.
The exhibition and the book coinciding with it explore the topic based on examples spanning
from 1830 to 2022. Protest Architecture is the first-ever international survey of the
architecture of protest and presents it in all its manifold forms and in some cases
ambivalence. It is conceived as an encyclopedia with around 170 entries supplemented by 14
more expansive case studies. A preceding chronology portrays some 80 protest movements and
their architectural manifestations through concise texts and one image each including examples
from all over the world such as the 1830 July Revolution in Paris the 1848 March Revolution
in Berlin the 1911 Sugar Workers Strike in Queensland (Australia) the 1936-37 General Motors
Sit-down Strike in Flint MI (USA) the 1969-98 Troubles in Northern Ireland Freetown
Christiania in Copenhagen since 1971 the 1986 People Power Revolution in Manila the 1999 WTO
Protests in Seattle WA (USA) the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions on Cairo's Tahrir Square and
Manama's Pearl Roundabout the 2013-14 Euromaidan uprisings in Kyiv the 2015-16 #FeesMustFall
student protests in Pretoria the 2019 Acampamento Terra Livre in Brasilia the 2020-21 Indian
Farmers Protests and the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
