L’Ospedale Psichiatrico Paolo Pini: da «cittadella per la cura mentale» a risorsa culturale strategica per la città metropolitana di Milano

The essay traces the main design and construction stages of the second Milanese psychiatric hospital, built in the first half of the 1920s after a long design process that began at the dawn of the twentieth century. Conceived as a «Great Asylum Astanteria» it was first a private clinic and then a public psychiatric hospital (1939). Thanks to a careful disposal process, its pavilions have now become a well-known museum of contemporary art.