IPIC2024-PID008 by Alberto Urrutia-Moldes

Bringing Light to Prison Design

Author

Alberto Urrutia-Moldes

Researcher/Consultant, Independent, United Kingdom

Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes, originally from Chile, is a Researcher, Lecturer and international consultant in prison architecture. With a BSc in Construction and a BSc in Engineering, Dr Urrutia-Moldes worked for 15 years at the Bio-Bio regional directorate of the Chilean prison service, heading the regional architecture and construction office, and working on the delivery of capital refurbishments and upgrades of the 24 prison and probation facilities across 13 cities in the region. He holds a PhD in prison architecture from the University of Sheffield and is currently a Lecturer in Construction in the partnership program of the University of Bath Spa and GBS in Manchester, UK. He is also a Lecturer in prison built environment at the Centre for Public Innovation in Latin America (InnovaPublica). In 2022, as a consultant, he was selected as Principal Investigator in a project financed by the European Union and executed by the Italian NGO Progettomondo, which sought to evaluate the gap between the standards promoted by the Nelson Mandela Rules and the current carceral conditions of prison and detention facilities in Bolivia and Honduras.
Dr Urrutia-Moldes is the author of the 2022 Routledge book Health and Well-being in Prison Design: A Theory of Prison Systems and Framework for Evolution, as well as a co-author of a Chapter in the (2022) Palgrave Handbook on prison design, edited by Dominic Moran et.al.

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