| Description |
xviii, 573 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Buildings and the Subject of Science / Peter Galison -- 2. Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum / Paula Findlen -- 3. Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius / William R. Newman -- 4. Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy / Pamela O. Long -- 5. Architectures for Steam / M. Norton Wise -- 6. Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofer's Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory / Myles W. Jackson -- 7. The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangement and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- 8. Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain / Sophie Forgan -- 9. "Spatial Mechanics": Scientific Metaphors in Architecture / Adrian Forty |
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10. Diagramming the New World, or Hannes Meyer's "Scientization" of Architecture / K. Michael Hays -- 11. Listening to/for Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Development of Modern Spaces in America / Emily Thompson -- 12. Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital / Allan M. Brandt and David C. Sloane -- 13. Architecture, Science, and Technology / Antoine Picon -- 14. Architecture as Science: Analogy or Disjunction? / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- 15. The Mutual Limits of Architecture and Science / Kenneth Frampton -- 16. The Hounding of the Snark / Denise Scott Brown -- 17. Thoughts on the Architecture of the Scientific Workplace: Community, Change, and Continuity / Robert Venturi -- 18. The Design Process for the Human Workplace / James Collins, Jr. -- 19. Life in the Lewis Thomas Laboratory / Arnold J. Levine -- 20. Two Faces on Science: Building Identities for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology / Thomas F. Gieryn |
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21. Architecture at Fermilab / Robert R. Wilson -- 22. The Architecture of Science: From D'Arcy Thompson to the SSC / Moshe Safdie -- 23. Factory, Laboratory, Studio: Dispersing Sites of Production / Peter Galison and Caroline A. Jones |
| Summary |
"How do the spaces in which science is done shape the identity of the scientist and the self-conception of scientific fields? How do the sciences structure the identity of the architect and the practice of architecture in a specific period? And how does the design of spaces such as laboratories, hospitals, and museums affect how the public perceives and interacts with the world of science? The Architecture of Science offers a set of speculations on these issues by historians of science, architecture, and art: architectural theorists: and sociologists as well as practicing scientists and architects."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture and science.
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Architecture and technology.
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Laboratories.
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| Author |
Galison, Peter, 1955-
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Thompson, Emily Ann.
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| LC no. |
98043966 |
| ISBN |
0262071908 (hc : alk. paper) |
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