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

(Part of the Great Lakes Books Series Series)

by Heidi Johnson and Heidi Johnson

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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:1.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 10.0" x 7.2"

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