Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415534828 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. 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. Contemporary museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for every new technology of constraint and oversight. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment. Now that criminal and creative transgression are America’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will
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 explores the societal and architectural connections between two institutions that have expanded tenfold since the 1970s: museums and prisons." – Frances Anderton, Design & Architecture"Joe Day, an accomplished architect and academic teaching at SCI-Arc and Yale, presents a daunting traverse through the dialectical territory between visual pleasure and psychological pain. architect who teaches at the Southern Cal
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.
The Beautiful and the Damned 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!. Georgia Congreve said Handy little device.. 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.