Title & Author:

Carceral architecture : from within and beyond the prison walls / Basile Baudez / Victoria Bergbauer (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, [2026]
©2026

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: rethinking carceral architecture / Basile Baudez and Victoria Bergbauer -- I: individual -- Individual / Christopher Talib Charriez -- Beyond incarceration / Nafeesah Goldsmith, Een Jabriel, Ibrahim Sulaimani, and Jill Stockwell -- From the city jail to the penitentiary: women, girls, and crime in the American midwest / Sowande' M. Mustakeem -- Double imprisonment: narratives of trans carcerality / rl Goldberg -- Art in and for carceral spaces / Isabelle Bonzom -- II: site -- Site / Chris Etienne -- Containment or contamination: visualizing the plantation hospital in the Americas / Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Jessica Womack -- Domesticating barracks: carceral constructions of the American West / Katie Chizuko Solien -- The architecture of immigrant detention / Sarah Lopez -- The architecture of decarceration / Regina Chen -- III: time -- The mark of time / Een Jabriel -- Storytelling from both sides of the prison walls: what it looks like living in San Quentin / Juan Moreno Haines -- A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our wrong ideas of solitary confinement / Spencer J. Weinreich -- Curatorial strategies with a lasting impact: the per(sister) exhibition / Dolfinette Martin, Syrita Steib, Anastasia Peliaas, and Miriam Taylor Fair -- Transforming an abbey into a prison: Clairvaux and the web documentary le Cloître et la Prison / Falk Bretschneider, Isabelle Heullant-Donat, and Élisabeth Lusset -- IV: care -- Care / Joel Negron -- Food-borne punishment / Andrea Armstron -- "A sanctuary from the jail": countering carceral logics in prison educational spaces / Elisabeth Austin, Tommaso Bardelli, Sam Johnson, Tammy Ortiz, and Ess Pokornowski -- Care in the countryside: rehabilitating children in the nineteenth century / Victoria Bergbauer -- Religious practices at Eastern State Penitentiary: a case study / Liz Trumbull -- Addenda -- Not much is going to change: reflecting on "the architecture of confinement" / Kennedy Mattes and Charlie McWeeny -- A modern architecutral history of carceral facilities in five projects / Basile Baudez.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9783986122058 paperback
3986122052 paperback

Subject:

Prisons Design and construction History.
Correctional institutions Social aspects.
Prisons Conception et construction Histoire.
Établissements de correction Aspect social.

Added entries:

Baudez, Basile, 1974- editor, author.
Bergbauer, Victoria, editor, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 323561
Call No.: 323561
Copy: 1
Status: Available