A Silent Profession: Asylums, Prisons and Architects

Author:   Arthur Allen
Publisher:   FriesenPress
ISBN:  

9781525523304


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   20 March 2020
Format:   Paperback
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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 are required by law to design institutional buildings, but with political change, their clients often change their minds, demanding civilized or brutal confinement in turn. When brutality or indifferent treatment is required that aggravates crime or madness, to do the work an architect must defy his/her code of ethics which demands service in the public interest. Architects are not alone with this quandary. This book concludes that resolution of this discussion requires that when a client and an architect know the intentions and consequences of a buildings design and operations, they must share the moral and functional responsibilities of the work.

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Author:   Arthur Allen
Publisher:   FriesenPress
Imprint:   FriesenPress
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781525523304


ISBN 10:   1525523309
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   20 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Arthur Allen is now a retired architect and a writer, with a record of experience in design of mental health facilities, leading to a lifetime interest in the architecture of human confinement.

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