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Dr. Leslie Topp

Books

  • Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe 1890-1914 – planned monograph
  • Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp, eds., Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900, Lund Humphries, 2009
  • Leslie Topp, James Moran and Jonathan Andrews, eds. Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context, Routledge, 2007
  • Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Chapters

  • Leslie Topp and Sabine Wieber, 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll: The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging', in E. Gabriel and M. Gamper, eds., Psychiatrische Institutionen in Österreich um 1900. Vienna: Verlagshaus der Ärzte, 2009, 107-118
  • Leslie Topp and Gemma Blackshaw, 'Scrutinised Bodies and Lunatic Utopias: Mental illness, psychiatry and the visual arts in Vienna, 1898–1914' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 14-37
  • Nicola Imrie and Leslie Topp, 'Modernity follows madness? Viennese architecture for mental illness and nervous disorders' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 76-99.
  • 'Erwin Pendl (studio), Model of Lower Austrian Provincial Institution for the Cure and Care of the Mentally Ill "Am Steinhof", c. 1907' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 100-109.
  • 'International Models, Regional Politics and the Architecture of Psychiatric Institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy', in Michael Guggenheim and Ola Söderström, eds. Re-Shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form. Forthcoming, Routledge, 2009 (revised and shortened version of previously published article)
  • 'The Modern Mental Hospital in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany and Austria: Psychiatric Space and Images of Freedom and Control' in Topp, Moran and Andrews, eds. Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context, Routledge, 2007

Articles

  • Leslie Topp and Sabine Wieber, 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll: The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging', planned article (expanded version of chapter)
  • 'Psychiatric Institutions, Their Architecture and the Politics of Regional Autonomy in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38 (2007): 733-755
  • 'Otto Wagner and the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture as Misunderstanding', Art Bulletin, vol. 87, no. 1, March 2005.
  • 'Architecture and Mental Illness: The Psychiatric Hospitals in Trieste and Gorizia - Issues and Questions', Archivio trentino: Rivista di Studi sull'Eta Moderna e Contemporanea, (Trento, Italy), January 2004
  • 'An Architecture for Modern Nerves: Josef Hoffmann's Purkersdorf Sanatorium', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 56, no.4 (December 1997), 414-437. Winner of the Founder's Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, U.S., 1997

Conference papers/presentations

  • 'The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: contexts old and new in a planned exhibition', Association of Art Historians annual conference, London , April 2008
  • 'History of Art and History of Medicine: Innovation or Reiteration?' Panel discussion, History of Art research seminar, School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, December 2007
  • 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll: The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging' (with Dr Sabine Wieber) Psychiatrische - und ähnliche Anstalten um 1900. Konzepte, Realisierungen, Praxis, workshop hosted by the Institute for the History of Medicine, Vienna, October 2007; paper also delivered at Journeys into Madness: Representations of Mental Illness in the Arts and Sciences, 1850-1930, London, Wellcome Collection, October 2007
  • 'Habsburg Psychiatric Institutions: Medicine, Government and Architecture in International and Regional Contexts', Science and medicine in the multinational empires of Central and Eastern Europe, 1848-1918, conference hosted by the Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science, June 2006 (http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/empires.html)
  • 'The Modernist Mental Hospital in the Austrian Länder, 1890-1914', Geschichte(n) der Medizin in Österreich, conference organised by the Institute for the History of Medicine, Vienna, April 2005
  • 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Modernist Mental Hospital in Early-Twentieth-Century Austria', History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science, March 2005
  • 'The Modernist Mental Hospital in the Habsburg Empire, 1890-1914', East-Central Europe Research Seminar, Oxford University Faculty of Modern History (chair: Professor Robert Evans), May 2004
  • 'Steinhof: The Modernist Mental Hospital and its Representations', College Art Association annual conference, February 2004
  • 'Modern Architecture and Asylum Planning in the Austro-Hungarian Empire', Space, Psyche and Psychiatry conference, Oxford Brookes University, December 2002

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