![During the Spanish Civil War, French architect surrealist painter Alphonse Laurencic designed holding cells for the Spanish government. He built beds in such a manner that the prisoners would roll off them, and placed obstacles on the floor making it impossible to sleep [400x585 - 474KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/BphwEg.png){kind=link}
Their principal designer, as documented in a book by R. L. Chacon called ''Why I Made the Cells in Barcelona,'' was a shifty character named Alfonso Laurencic.
Laurencic was an Austrian-born Frenchman who apparently defrauded both the Republicans and Francisco Franco's Falangist revolutionaries. He called his cells and queasy-making wall squiggles ''psychotechnic torture,'' thus neatly conflating notions of psychiatry with technocratic modernism. At his trial by Franco's victorious forces in June 1939, he claimed that he had made the cells under duress.
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>Their principal designer, as documented in a book by R. L. Chacon called ''Why I Made the Cells in Barcelona,'' was a shifty character named Alfonso Laurencic.
>Laurencic was an Austrian-born Frenchman who apparently defrauded both the Republicans and Francisco Franco's Falangist revolutionaries. He called his cells and queasy-making wall squiggles ''psychotechnic torture,'' thus neatly conflating notions of psychiatry with technocratic modernism. At his trial by Franco's victorious forces in June 1939, he claimed that he had made the cells under duress.
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