Through this work we intend to give the Psychiatric Hospital São Pedro (Porto Alegre, Brazil) historical building genealogy some visibility. The questioning related to the present madness space intrigues and encourages us: what has been done and what is being done about one of the buildings that has housed the mad people of Porto Alegre for over a century? What space has housed and what will house the mad people in the city from now on?
City; Psychiatric reform; Madness; Urbanization
