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Title:

THE ARCHITECTURE OF MADNESS
INSANE ASYLUMS IN THE UNITED STATES

By:

Carla Yanni

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0816649405

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9780816649402

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Pub. date:

12 April, 2007

Series:

Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture

Pages:

208

Synopsis:

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.

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