Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime

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America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million day-to-day visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase within the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment.

Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and place of business towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. Prisons and museums, even though diametrically opposed when it comes to public engagement, class representation, and civic pride, are complementary structures, employing related spatial and visual tactics to protected and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures. Our contemporary demand for museums and prisons has encouraged architects to be innovative with their design, and experimental with their scale and distribution through our cities. Recent museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for each and every new technology of constraint and oversight.

Now that criminal and creative transgression are The usa’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will recalibrate your assumptions about art, architecture, and urban design.


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