The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. Mas d’Enric is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prisons.
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Contributions by Keller Easterling, Adrià Carbonell, Lluís Ortega, Juan Azulay, Juan Elvira, Ed Keller, Ramon Faura, Camí, Eòghann MacColl, Angela Kay Bunning, Gruff Rhys, Jordi Bernadó.
Critical Prison Design: Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura
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