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Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 by Leslie Topp (review)
Ist Teil von
Bulletin of The History of Medicine, 2018, Vol.92 (3), p.559-561
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
By analyzing briefs, building processes, and architectural configurations, the author investigates thoroughly how this “media,” represented by turn-of-the-former-century psychiatric institutions of Central Europe, conveyed messages of care and treatment to people with mental illness. Architecture, urban planning, and spatial configuration were important parts in this process, and architecture especially was used to enhance the asylums’ importance and influence (in terms of material and semiotic impact), under the umbrella of how freedom, through control and design, could be manufactured and instrumentalized. Through a spatial analysis (i.e., by looking closely into asylum plans), the author examines different ways of solving the paradoxical and dual problems of controlling the patients and giving them freedom.