A Silent Profession: Asylums, Prisons and Architects
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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.
In North America architects...
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"
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