All architectural prototypes across history are based on concepts, precepts, and theories. How have they played out the designs that architects have produced? What were the results or outcomes that resulted from such prototypes?
A fundamental reevaluation of correctional theory is long overdue.
The result is a new prototype facility for incarceration, appropriate for both pre-trial and post-sentenced populations.
However, this presentation will take this much further. Theoretical prototypes face barriers to adoption. They must survive a high-stake decision calculus within high-risk political environments. For this reason, a comparison to a state-of-the-art facility design identical in all important aspects will be undertaken. The comparison will evaluate both proposals transparently across the full range of criteria that normally establish the scope and mission of facilities being procured.
Moderator Jesper Dyreborg, Unit Manager, Danish Prison and Probation Service, Denmark
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Hugh Lester PhD.
Architecture Director, Corrections & Secure Psychiatric, STV, United States
Hugh D. Lester has national design, planning, and business development responsibilities in the justice practice at STV, Inc., leveraging his portfolio of jails, prisons, courthouses, and other justice projects ranging from $1.5M to $2.9B. The focus of his work is improving conditions of confinement through architecture and security systems engineering, with an overall goal of improving outcomes for the justice system involved as well as staff. He is pursuing a doctorate in Sociotechnical Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, supplementing his bachelor’s degrees in psychology and architecture and a master’s in criminal justice.
