Carceral Architecture
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Edited by:
Basile Baudez
About this book
When architecture serves as a tool for punishment through confinement and isolation, every design choice affects lives. What is prison architecture? Where do spaces of incarceration from jails to migration camps and beyond materialize? How do their spatial logics haunt our contemporary societies? For the first time, Carceral Architecture offers readers an account of prison design and its effects by centering the voices of people impacted by the correctional system in the United States alongside those of activists, architects, designers, scholars, artists, and students. In so doing, it highlights a much-neglected issue of our time and helps reimagine a society that continues to be marked by the reality of mass incarceration.
With contributions by Amy Mielke, Andrea Armstrong, Anna Arabindan Kesson, Basile Baudez, Charlie McWeeny, Christopher Etienne, Christopher Talib Charriez, Dolfinette Martin, Een Jabriel, Élisabeth Lusset, Ennead Lab, Ess Pokornowski, Falk Bretschneider, Grégoire Korganow, Ibrahim Sulaimani, Isabelle Bonzom, Isabelle Heullant-Donat, Ithaka S+R, Jessica Womack, Jill Stockwell, Joel Negron, Juan Moreno Haines, Katie Chizuko Solien, Kennedy Mattes, MASS Design Group, Myriam Taylor Fair, Nafeesah Goldsmith, Per(Sister), Regina Chen, rl Goldberg, Sam Johnson, Sarah Lopez, Sowande’ Mustakeem, Spencer Weinreich, Syrita Seib, Tammy Ortiz (Ithaka S+R), and Victoria Bergbauer
This publication is made possible in part from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University.
- A groundbreaking critical analysis of the architecture of jails, prisons, and beyond
- A diverse collection of voices from experts and scholars to activists and incarcerated individuals
- Includes an addendum with historical and pedagogical tools
Author / Editor information
Basile Baudez is associate professor of architectural history in the Art & Archaeology department at Princeton University. He specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European architecture and focuses on the role of architecture in politics and society.
Victoria Bergbauer is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Her dissertation (Princeton University, 2025) provides the first transnational history of formerly incarcerated individuals and traces the architecture(s) and origins of rehabilitation in the nineteenth century.
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Table Of Contents
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Introduction
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Individual
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Beyond Incarceration
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From the City Jail to the Penitentiary: Women, Girls, and Crime in the American Midwest
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Double Imprisonment: Narratives of Trans Carcerality
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Art in and for Carceral Spaces
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Site
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Containment or Contamination: Visualizing the Plantation Hospital in the Americas
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Domesticating Barracks: Carceral Constructions of the American West
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The Architecture of Immigrant Detention
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The Architecture of Decarceration
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The Mark of Time
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Storytelling from both Sides of the Prison Walls: What it Looks Like Living in San Quentin
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Wrong Ideas of Solitary Confinement
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Curatorial Strategies with a Lasting Impact: The Per(Sister) Exhibition
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Transforming an Abbey into a Prison: Clairvaux and the Web Documentary Le Cloître et la Prison
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Care
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Food-borne Punishment
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“A Sanctuary from the Jail”: Countering Carceral Logics in Prison Educational Spaces
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Care in the Countryside: Rehabilitating Children in the Nineteenth Century
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Religious Practices at Eastern State Penitentiary: A Case Study
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Not Much is Going to Change: Reflecting on “The Architecture of Confinement”
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A Modern Architectural History of Carceral Facilities in Five Projects
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Bibliography (for Reference)
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Biographies of Authors
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