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Between 1850 and 1919, nearly thirty new cellular prisons were built in Belgium to facilitate the strictly cellular regime. Joseph-Jonas Dumont (1811–1859), Belgium’s most important prison architect in the first decade(s) of the cellular building campaign, introduced the English neo-Tudor style in his prison designs. This paper explores the underlying motives and meanings of his stylistic choice.
This paper is part of my doctoral research Design and construction of the cellular prison in Belgium (1830-WWI), Ghent University.
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Feyaerts, J. (2018). Joseph-Jonas Dumont’s Prison Gatehouses: Architecture Parlante in Neo-Tudor Style. In: Huygebaert, S., Martyn, G., Paumen, V., Bousmar, E., Rousseaux, X. (eds) The Art of Law. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 66. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90787-1_18
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