Carla Yanni: Neilly Series Lecture

Title

Carla Yanni: Neilly Series Lecture

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Contributor

Date

2008-09-25

Description

Carla Yanni will discuss her most recent book, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. Yanni tells the story of therapeutic design, from America’s earliest purpose-builtinstitutions to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century.

A Rochester native, now Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, she is interested in architecture as a way of understanding society’s values.

The Lecture will be introduced by J. Steven Lamberti, Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. 5 p.m.

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Event Type

Lecture

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Citation

Yanni, Carla, “Carla Yanni: Neilly Series Lecture,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed December 10, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4536.

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