Interior Spaces of Crime and Coercion

Interior Spaces of Crime and Coercion To really appreciate architecture,” says Bernard Tschumi in Advertisements for Architecture, “you may even need to commit a murder.” This panel considers the interior spaces that pertain to crimes and other forbidden actions. It calls for scholarship that looks at rooms where “wrong” things are done—spaces of transgression—as well as the more frequently studied spaces of “correction.” The latter are entwined with ideas of modernity, from Piranesi’s Carceri to Foucault on Bentham’s Panopticon. The former—the scenes of the crime—are themselves subjects of study by historians of criminology like Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, and the journal Crime, HistoireRead More →