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 dazzling set of speculations on these issues by historians of science, architecture, and art; architectural theorists; and sociologists as well as practicing scientists and architects. The essays are organized into six sections: "Of Secrecy and Openness: Science and Architecture in Early Modern Europe"; "Displaying and Concealing Technics in the Nineteenth Century"; "Modern Space"; "Is Architecture Science "; "Princeton after Modernism: The Lewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology"; and "Centers, Cities, and Colliders."
The Architecture of Science offers a dazzling set of speculations by historians of science, architecture, and art; architectural theorists; and sociologists as well as practicing scientists and architects.
Acknowledgments xi Notes on Contributors xiii Buildings and the Subject of Science 1(28) Peter Galison I OF SECRECY AND OPENNESS: SCIENCE AND ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum 29(30) Paula Findlen Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius 59(20) William R. Newman Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy 79(28) Pamela O. Long II DISPLAYING AND CONCEALING TECHNICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Architectures for Steam 107(34) M. Norton Wise Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofers Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory 141(24) Myles W. Jackson The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangement and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions 165(16) George W. Stocking Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain 181(32) Sophie Forgan III MODERN SPACE ``Spatial Mechanics: Scientific Metaphors in Architecture 213(20) Adrian Forty Diagramming the New World, or Hannes Meyers ``Scientization of Architecture 233(20) K. Michael Hays Listening to/for Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Development of Modern Spaces in America 253(28) Emily Thompson Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital 281(28) Allan M. Brandt David C. Sloane IV IS ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE? Architecture, Science, and Technology 309(28) Antoine Picon Architecture as Science: Analogy or Disjunction? 337(16) Alberto Perez-Gomez The Mutual Limits of Architecture and Science 353(22) Kenneth Frampton The Hounding of the Snark 375(10) Denise Scott Brown V PRINCETON AFTER MODERNISM: THE LEWIS THOMAS LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Thoughts on the Architecture of the Scientific Workplace: Community, Change, and Continuity 385(14) Robert Venturi The Design Process for the Human Workplace 399(14) James Collins Life in the Lewis Thomas Laboratory 413(10) Arnold J. Levine Two Faces on Science: Building Identities for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 423(36) Thomas F. Gieryn VI CENTERS, CITIES, AND COLLIDERS Architecture at Fermilab 459(16) Robert R. Wilson The Architecture of Science: From DArcy Thompson to the SSC 475(22) Moshe Safdie Factory, Laboratory, Studio: Dispersing Sites of Production 497(44) Peter Galison Caroline A. Jones Index 541
