112. Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes. The human consequences of prison architecture
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Video link which includes Alberto's diagrams is here: https://youtu.be/qDRqJ93shLM Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes, originally from Chile, holds a PhD in prison architecture from the University ofSheffield. He is a Lecturer in Construction in the partnership program of the University ofBath Spa and GBS in Manchester, UK. He is also a Lecturer in prison built environment atthe Centre for Public Innovation in Latin America (InnovaPublica), and an internationalconsultant in prison architecture. As a consultant, he is currently working on the evaluation ofcarceral conditions and their alignment with the Nelson Mandela Rules in the prison servicesof Bolivia and Honduras.Alberto has a BSc in Construction Engineering and a BSc in Industrial Engineering. After fiveyears of managing constructions for the private sector, he worked for 15 years in the Bio-Bioregional office of the Chilean prison service, as head of planning and heading thearchitecture and construction office, working on the delivery of capital refurbishments andupgrades of 24 prison and probation facilities across 13 cities in the region. In 2012 he co-organised the first conference in prison architecture held in Chile and co-edited the book 1stSeminar of Prison Architecture for Social Reinsertion, published by the University of Bio-BioHe left his country in 2014 to start studies of PhD in the UK, conducting a cross-continentalstudy in prison architecture, which is the base for his book, recently published by Routledge,called Health and Well-Being in Prison Design A Theory of Prison Systems and aFramework for Evolution. Alberto investigates how the health and well-being of prison usersare addressed by designers, prison services authorities, and international prison advisers ineight countries across Europe, North America and South America. Book Chapter being published in a volume named “What works in prison architecture”,edited by Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes. Currently in process of final revisions by editors.Chapter title:Prison architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist analysis of prisonarchitectural outputs through the lens of organised hypocrisy theory.
