White City.
Bounded urban unit.
Modern architecture.
Modernity and train travel.
It’s an asylum.
Steinhof.
Movement of asylum from the margins to central cultural context.
Architecture used to heighten meaning.
Repealed narratives of reform.
Late 1880s.
The asylum was born.
Something public, something rational.
Uneasiness over freedom and control.
Freedom and the cage.
Madness is deprived of a voice.
Moment of liberation before control.
A caged freedom.
Foucault.
Architecture as a visual representation of freedom.
Buildings and landscapes are crucial.
The architecture doesn’t adequately represent reform.
Villa asylum. Quasi urban settlement.
Fragmentation to the human scale.
Rising nationalism.
Rising paralysis as centre.
Embracing of progressive modernism.
Deliberate departure from the grid.
Absence of corridor = most liberal form.
Corridor equates to institution, to control.
Terms and forms of domestic architecture.
Creation of normative, daily, urban practices.
The walk to church.
Steinhof as a return to order.
Wagner regularises the plan.
Church as cult building.
Mini utopian cities.
Series of outdoor corridors.
Return to internal corridor.
Return to the un-ashamedly institutional.
Return to the word ‘cell’.
The church as a node around which everything else is arranged.
Institution as spectacle.
Institution as utopian city.
Recurring oppositions is legacy in architecture.
The status of the domestic in move from private to public.
Owned by state, designed by architects of the state.
(De)Emphasis on rationality, borders, master-planning.
Asylum as laboratory.