CRITICAL PRISON DESIGN

he newly built Mas dEnric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architectures role in the problematic subject of prison d esign. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. Mas dEnric is a new p enitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings.Th e discussion ...[Read more]