Critical Prison Design: Mas d'Enric Penitentiary by Aib Arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura

by Roger Paez

The newly built Mas d'Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture's role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. Mas d'Enric is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989331776
• ISBN13: 9780989331777
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Actar
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"