Dr Leslie Topp
Head of Department
Department of History of Art
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Leslie Topp is Reader in History of Architecture in the Department of History of Art. Her teaching encompasses art, architecture, design and urbanism from 1800 to the present, with a particular focus on Central Europe around 1900. She joined Birkbeck in 2005 and was previously Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Research Interest
Architecture, Psychiatry
Publications
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'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.
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'Otto Wagner and the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture as Misunderstanding', Art Bulletin (March 2005) 87(1):130-156.
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'Psychiatric Institutions, Their Architecture, and the Politics of Regional Autonomy in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy' Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2007) 38: 733-755.
