Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum

by Heidi Johnson and Heidi Johnson

Book Overview

An intimate photographic journey into 115 years of history inside a nineteenth-century asylum.

In the nineteenth century, perhaps no approach to mental illness was more compassionate than that of hospital administrator Thomas Story Kirkbride, whose asylum designs integrated beauty and nature as a method to treat patients. The Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan, was one of the last of nearly two hundred such architecturally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332129
• ISBN13: 9780814332122
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.0" x 7.2"