A Silent Profession: Asylums, Prisons and Architects

by Arthur Allen

Book Overview

If the words "beautiful prison" are hard to say, does that explain why architects seldom, if ever, talk or write about the artistic merits and functional failures of asylum and prison design? In an attempt to understand this silence, and the absence of asylums and prisons in competitions seeking honors for excellence in design, the papers in this book examine what may be architects' most difficult field of work.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1525523309
• ISBN13: 9781525523304
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"