ISBN10: 0816649405, ISBN13: 9780816649402, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press 2007-04-12, Minneapolis, Minn. :|Bristol] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums-ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles-were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed ISBN 0816649405 9780816649402 [GB]

ISBN10: 0816649405, ISBN13: 9780816649402, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota] Softcover First Edition Paperback. In The Architecture of Madness, Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America's earliest purpose-built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. At the centre of Yanni's inquiry is Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Pennsylvania-born Quaker, who in the 1840s devised a novel way to house the mentally diseased that emphasized segregation by severity of illness, ease of treatment and surveillance, and ventilation. After the Civil War, American architects designed Kirkbride-plan hospitals across the country. Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums-ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles-were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment-architecture in particular-was the most effective means of treatment. In "The Architecture of Madness," Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America's earliest purpose-built institutions for the insane to the ...
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