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Excerpt from: Architecture's Mission In The Field Of Mental Retardation Over the past 25 years, I have visited more than 500 institutions in the field of health, welfare, education, and delinquency, and at various times I have had institutional assignments, so that I became well acquainted with them from the inside, but it was not until a few years ago when I first saw some new institutions for the mentally retarded in the Scandinavian countries, and in particular Lillemosegaard (which we all shall visit on Wednesday morning) that I was suddenly struck with the tremendous contribution architects can make in our field. When I have chosen as the title of my few remarks this morning "Architecture's Mission in the Field of Mental Retardation," I have done so to indicate that I include architects among the professional groups that can make a primary contribution to the field of mental retardation.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Architecture's Mission In The Field Of Mental Retardation | |
| Creator: | Gunnar Dybwad (author) | |
| Date: | April 1966 | |
| Format: | Speech | |
| Source: | Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family | |
| Keywords: | Accessibility; Advocacy; Architecture; Assistive Technology; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Copenhagen, Denmark; Denmark; Educational Institutions; Government; Gunnar Dybwad; Housing; Human Rights; Institutions; International Working Conference On Architectural Planning In Mental Retardation; Lille Mosegaard, Denmark; Mental Retardation; Normalization; Norway; Social Welfare & Communities; Sweden | |
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| Note: | Delivered at the International Working Conference on Architectural Planning in Mental Retardation, Copenhagen. |
