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1 Buildings and the Subject of Science |
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I Of Secrecy and Openness: Science and Architecture in Early Modern Europe |
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2 Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum |
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3 Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius |
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4 Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy |
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II Displaying and Concealing Technics in the Nineteenth Century |
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5 Architectures for Steam |
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6 Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofer's Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory |
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7 The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangement and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions |
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8 Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain |
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9 "Spatial Mechanics": Scientific Metaphors in Architecture |
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10 Diagramming the New World, or Hannes Meyer's "Scientization" of Architecture |
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11 Listening to/for Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Development of Modern Spaces in America |
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12 Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital |
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IV Is Architecture Science? |
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13 Architecture, Science, and Technology |
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14 Architecture at Science: Analogy or Disjunction? |
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15 The Mutual Limits of Architecture and Science |
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16 The Hounding of the Snark |
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V Princeton after Modernism: The Lewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology |
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17 Thoughts on the Architecture of the Scientific Workplace: Community, Change, and Continuity |
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18 The Design Process for the Human Workplace |
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19 Life in the Lewis Thomas Laboratory |
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20 Two Faces on Science: Building Identities for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology |
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VI Centers, Cities, and Colliders |
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21 Architecture at Fermilab |
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22 The Architecture of Science: From D'Arcy Thompson to the SSC |
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23 Factory, Laboratory, Studio: Dispersing Sites of Production |
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