Stillwater facility’s proposed closing prompts a look at the architectural significance of correctional centers in Minnesota.

It might be the most carefully hidden building boom in American architectural ... design preferences — strict minimalism, fanatical control of sightlines and lighting — as the contemporary ...

“For me, modern architecture is most succinctly summarized by Peter Blake, who was the former chief curator of architecture design at MoMA ... the stock exchange, the prison, the railroad ...

So, as long as prisons and jails continue to exist, architects and urban planners must face the question of what a prison ... modern jail, one that’s humane, sustainable, [with] trauma-informed ...

The U.S. provides room and board for 25 percent of the world’s total prison population ... architectural engineering firm HDR, says, “The state was pushing the design team to come up with ...

Both typological and topological design strategies are central to the Mas d'Enric Penitentiary project. Typological: We aimed to move beyond conventional modern prison architecture by creating a ...

Dropcity's inaugural exhibition, 'Prison Times – Spatial Dynamics of Penal Environments', offers an unprecedented take on interiors; the show zooms in on detention environments through the lens of ...

The architecture for the prison was first designed by a philosopher called Jeremy Bentham. Its design is known as the ... and wrote a sort of genealogy of modern power around the concept of ...

Practically speaking, for an architect the chance to design a new execution chamber occurs very rarely. But given the nation's continuing boom in prison-construction, there are plenty of solitary ...