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  • - Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
    av Amy F. Ogata
    370,-

  • - Insane Asylums in the United States
    av Carla Yanni
    308,-

    Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment—architecture in particular—was the most effective means of treatment.  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 center 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. Before the end of the century, interest in the Kirkbride plan had begun to decline. Many of the asylums had deteriorated into human warehouses, strengthening arguments against the monolithic structures advocated by Kirkbride. At the same time, the medical profession began embracing a more neurological approach to mental disease that considered architecture as largely irrelevant to its treatment.  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 way to cure social ills. Carla Yanni is associate professor of art history at Rutgers University and the author of Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display.

  • - The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943
    av Annmarie Adams
    292,-

  • - Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960
    av Abigail A.Van Slyck
    290,-

    A long-silenced literary figure speaks for modern Muslim women.

  • - Modernism and Community in Postwar America
    av Gretchen Buggeln
    420,-

    After World War II, America's religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvig

  • - How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
    av Dianne Harris
    410,-

  • - Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War
    av David Monteyne
    896,-

    Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War.

  • - Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915
    av Jessica Ellen Sewell
    292 - 804,-

    Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

  • - Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
    av Andrew M. Shanken
    266 - 810,-

  • - YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture
    av Paula Lupkin
    292 - 888,-

  • - The Material World of Mormon Settlement
    av Thomas Carter
    396,-

  • av Thomas C. Hubka
    427 - 1 294,-

  • - Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage
    av Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
    368 - 1 312,-

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