BOOKS by Carla Yanni

The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States more books like this

by Carla Yanni

Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums--ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles--were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth ...

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Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display more books like this

by Carla Yanni

Museums produced natural knowledge and were themselves architectural spectacles," writes Carla Yanni. "As such, they comprise a rich cultural site suggestive of interdisciplinary historical study." In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians approached the ...

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Nature's Museums more books like this

by Carla Yanni

The architecture of British natural history museums reveals the complex definitions of nature in the 19th century. "Nature's Museums" allows the buildings themselves to act as a guide to the Victorians' understanding of the natural world.

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