Written by architects Lucia Meli and Giulio Polita, the book analyzes the story of the project for the hospital, opened in 1908.
100 years later the book describes the relationship between the society of the time and mental illness; from the point of view of architectural design, the authors are able to put questions that are still crucial today.
The book, produced in digital printing, is published by Edizioni Italo Svevo (Trieste).
With a really low budget, the project has been possible only due to the great enthusiasm of the two authors that firmly wanted this book to became real. In fact the large area of the hospital, after being the big laboratory of the antipsichiatric movement of the ’60 and the ’70, is now being deeply renewed and host offices from the University of Trieste, the local Health Care, etc. in a constant cancellation of his tragical history.