As a part of the debate on penitentiary architecture, this book proposes a critical interpretation of the conceptual elements and design approaches involved. Th

Current and future prison designs are examined in this book, within the government's prison building programme, and the confines of current penal philosophies a

Rigorously documented and generously illustrated, Forms of constraint surveys prison architecture from earliest times to the present. Embedding his discussion o

Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The colle

The newly built Mas d'Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture's role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an unc