UN POSTO CONVENIENTE PER GENTE SCONVENIENTE

Foucault denied the possibility of architecture to reverse the sense of oppressive devices such as asylums and exonerated the architect of the “peace crimes” described in the homonymous book by Franco Basaglia, on which he wrote an essay. The history of the Gorizia psychiatric hospital contradicts this irrelevance of architecture, showing how Basaglia’s denial of the institution is also achieved through architectural transformations and the dialogue with various well-known architects.