Andrew Santa Lucia is a Cuban American designer, educator, and prison abolitionist based in Portland, Oregon. He is Associate Professor of Practice at Portland State University’s School of Architecture, where he teaches design studio, history/theory/criticism seminars, and is the graduate thesis coordinator. He has lectured and exhibited internationally, including Art Basel, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Santa Lucia’s writing can be found in a broad range of media from book chapters to academic journals to DIY zines. He runs Office Andorus, which designs architecture for activists, public institutions, and private clients with the goal of influencing public perception through the cultural instrument of architecture. His work is a hybrid of bold colors, graphics, and shapes used to translate, sharpen and amplify antifascist aesthetics and practices. He is currently co-writing a two volume book with historian and critic Daniel Jonas-Roche, entitled Antifascist Architecture, which serves to locate architectural histories outside of capitalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with a particular focus on the buildings and aesthetics associated with militancy, socialism, anarchism, and mutual aid.
