The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
By (Author) Carla Yanni
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
2nd June 2007
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Care of people with mental health conditions
Architectural structure and design
Cultural studies
725
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 216mm, Height 279mm, Spine 28mm
Description
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.
