That's an oversimplification of the story in relation to architecture. A lot of modernist architects have espoused socialist views, but someone like Mies van d

That's an oversimplification of the story in relation to architecture. A lot of modernist architects have espoused socialist views, but someone like Mies van der Rohe also built some work for the Nazi regime. The modernist architect Philip Johnson was a notorious Nazi sympathizer. There's an article here that starts to unpick the architecture/politics relationship in relation to one architect's work: http://archinect.com/features/article/4618/peter-eisenman-liberal-views-have-never-built-anything-of-any-value http://archinect.com/features/article/4618/peter-eisenman-li... Since architecture requires significant wealth and organization, it's rarely, if ever, something that comes out of anarchism. So statism or philanthropy is often behind it.