Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00G6MP1QO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Prisons and museums, though diametrically opposed in terms of public engagement, class representation, and civic pride, are complementary structures, employing related spatial and visual tactics to secure and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures. Our recent demand for museums and prisons has encouraged architects to be innovative with their design, and experimental with their scale and distribution through our cities. cities. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. Now that criminal and creative transgression are America’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will recalibrate your assumptions about art, architecture, and urban design.. America holds more than two million inmates in it
. Joe Day is the design principal of Deegan-Day Design and is a visiting faculty member for architectural design, history, and theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, USA
architect who teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, charts not just the history of jails but the surprisingly broad and telling overlap between prison and museum design." – Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times" Corrections and Collections is an exploration of themese of concealment and display, an intellectual pursuit soon surely to inform new buildings by this enviably erudite architect." - Raymund Ryan, The Architectural Review. At one point he juxtaposes Oscar Wilde and Public Enemy and questions man's attraction to both seduction and punishment. Embedded in the prose are aphoristic statements, like "to find the future listen for acronyms." Filled with insightful observations on contemporary urbanism, Day is a longtime SCI-Arc professor and has also taught at Yale." – Mike Sonksen, KCET"Highly original and provocative book by LA-based architect Joe Day that explo
The Beautiful and the Damned tom deegan Corrections and Collections will make you think twice about the architecture of institutions--jails and museums-- that anchor both ends of our urban landscapeand what they oddly have in common. The scope of this work is focused on America, but goes global with comparisons with how other cultures deal with fine art and first offenders. Great read!. Handy little device. Georgia Congreve Great product. It's everything I wanted Very inexpensive in comparison to other options on the market an excellent high-quality product convenient, flexible, sturdy Everything is good Thanks! Well satisfied at the moment.