A specialist in the history of psychiatric architecture, an architect and a professor of architecture at the University of Trieste, Giuseppina Scavuzzo looks back at the reform carried out by the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in the hospitals of Gorizia and Trieste in Italy, which he directed and which inspired Law 180, known as the ‘Basaglia Law’: a landmark mental health law that ordered the gradual dismantling and closure of psychiatric hospitals and their replacement with community-based care.
Gorizia’s Hospital © Fulvio Orsenigo
