The Architecture of MadnessIn The Architecture of Madness, Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America's earliest purpose built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. At the centre of Yanni's inquiry is Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Pennsylvania born Quaker, who in the 1840s devised a novel way to house the mentally diseased that emphasised segregation by severity of illness, ease of treatment and