This Utzon Lecture coincided with the 2015 SAHANZ conference, being hosted by UNSW Built Environment, on Wednesday, 8 July 2015.
Both the practice and the history of architecture are based on deeply materialist premises: that in some way, the physical environment affects, and can even be used to shape, human values and human behavior.
Professor Upton’s talk discusses a familiar form – the penitentiary – in an unfamiliar context: that of spaces designed for voluntary self-improvement in the first half of the nineteenth century, primarily in the United States.
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