Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 041553481X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. 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. His taxonomy of meticulous diagrams and carefully curated photographs of the subject buildings relentlessly synthesizes and interrogates the nuances that transect our most dominant socio-cultural edifices within late-capital: museums and prisons." – John Southern, Archinect"…a fascinating new bo
tom deegan said 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.
Contemporary museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for every new technology of constraint and oversight. 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. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipl