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In the late Habsburg Empire, psychiatric institutions went through a process of reinvention as significant cultural and political monuments, by means of architecture, urban planning, and spatial configuration. My purpose in this study has not been to show that these asylums were important architectu...

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Published inFreedom and the Cage p. 187
Main Author Topp, Leslie
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Penn State University Press 01.03.2017
Pennsylvania State University Press
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History of architecture
History of medicine
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Summary:In the late Habsburg Empire, psychiatric institutions went through a process of reinvention as significant cultural and political monuments, by means of architecture, urban planning, and spatial configuration. My purpose in this study has not been to show that these asylums were important architecture; I have demonstrated instead how architecture was used to heighten their importance, their ability to mean, their status as expressions of an ideal central to modern society: how freedom, through control and design, could be manufactured and instrumentalized. I have interpreted the seven institutions built in the period leading up to the First World War not
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