I'm trying to do a thesis paper regarding Prison Architecture, on how space planning affects inmates and could architecture bring any effects to the prisoners.
Dear Kau, I would suggest to start out from Foucault's classical analysis of Bentham's ideal Panopticon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon)
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Ferenc
There's renewed interest in this - check out Prof Yvonne Jewkes at U. Brighton (e.g. http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/14869/) currently running a major comparative project on this. Also, Prof Laura Piacentini at U. Strathclyde https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/piacentinilauraprof/ onarchitecture and also carceral geographies.
Hello. From the late XVIII century onwards there are a lot of interesting texts about prison architecture: Bentham "Panopticon" Wirtings (Britain); Louis-Pierre Baltard "Architectonographie des prisons" (France); Ramon de la Sagra "Atlas Carcelario" (Spain) among others; However, I belive one of the most important works in the field is John Howard "The state of the prisons in England and Wales" Also, I recommend to you the works of Norman Johnston, specially his seminal "Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture"
Hi, I would suggest this, it is a book with a lot of information. I hope that you find it useful.
https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr=&id=tOvfsWbGv_gC&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=Prison+Architecture&ots=ovm5wWUCkJ&sig=ZXBSN3IpGnNcVNbVjiH4KVggDyA#v=onepage&q=Prison%20Architecture&f=false
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