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The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States

The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States

The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States

$27.50

Carla Yanni

Minneapolis, 2007

Book ID: 73962

From Kirkbride buildings to cottages, a fascinating tour through America’s nineteenth-century mental hospitals

Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America's earliest purpose-built institutions to the grandiose Kirkbride buildings that dominated asylum construction in the second half of the century. Generously illustrated, The Architecture of Madness is a fresh and original look at the American medical establishment's century-long preoccupation with therapeutic architecture as a means of curing social ills.

256 pp., 90 halftone illus. Pap.