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oapen-20.500.12657-483892021-04-27T00:47:54Z Chapter 10 Designing for Mental Health mental health; psychiatry; psychology; architectural study; project bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture In 1953 the American Psychiatric Association established an Architectural Study Project in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. The project brought together a wide range of experts from psychiatry and the behavioural sciences and the planning and design professions to provide solutions to the ailing mental hospital system in North America. They began to focus attention on various aspects of the hospital environment, such as light, colour and the creation of spaces for privacy and social contact, in ways that would go on to influence theories, methods and designs far beyond the walls of the institution. This paper will explore the contribution of the mental hospital, as both laboratory and field site, to the development of the new field of environmental psychology which attended to the function and design of a range of city spaces to prevent mental illness and promote mental health in a period of urban crisis. 2021-04-26T11:52:11Z 2021-04-26T11:52:11Z 2019 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48389 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK538043.pdf Springer Nature Preventing Mental Illness Palgrave Macmillan 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 7774e71c-5c92-4362-8589-1cb030290f89 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 27 10858/Z/15/Z Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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In 1953 the American Psychiatric Association established an Architectural Study Project in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. The project brought together a wide range of experts from psychiatry and the behavioural sciences and the planning and design professions to provide solutions to the ailing mental hospital system in North America. They began to focus attention on various aspects of the hospital environment, such as light, colour and the creation of spaces for privacy and social contact, in ways that would go on to influence theories, methods and designs far beyond the walls of the institution. This paper will explore the contribution of the mental hospital, as both laboratory and field site, to the development of the new field of environmental psychology which attended to the function and design of a range of city spaces to prevent mental illness and promote mental health in a period of urban crisis.
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