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Highlights
- An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.
- About the Author: Sandra Kaji-O'Grady is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland.
- 360 Pages
- Art, General
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Book Synopsis
An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an architectural statement. The laboratory is a serious investment in architectural expression in an attempt to persuade us of the value of the science that goes on inside. In this lavishly illustrated book, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Chris L. Smith explore the architecture of modern life science laboratories, and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. Looking at the varied designs of eleven important laboratories in North America, Europe, and Australia, all built between 2005 and 2019, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith examine the relationship between the design of contemporary laboratory buildings and the ideas and ideologies of science. Observing that every laboratory architect and client declares the same three aspirations--to eliminate boundaries, to communicate the benefits of its research programs, and to foster collaboration--Kaji-O'Grady and Smith organize their account according to the themes of boundaries, expression, and socialization. For instance, they point to the South Australian Health and Medical Institute's translucent envelope as the material equivalent of institutional accountability; the insistent animal imagery of the NavarraBioMed laboratory in Spain; and the Hillside Research Campus's mimicry of the picturesque fishing village that once occupied its site. Through these and their other examples, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith show how the architecture of the laboratory shapes the science that takes place within it.About the Author
Sandra Kaji-O'Grady is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. Kaji-O'Grady and Chris Smith are coeditors (with Russell Hughes) of Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions (MIT Press). Chris L. Smith is Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Technê at the University of Sydney. Smith and Sandra Kaji-O'Grady are coeditors (with Russell Hughes) of Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions (MIT Press).Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W) x .98 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 360
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Sandra Kaji-O'Grady & Chris L Smith
Language: English
Street Date: February 6, 2024
TCIN: 92262207
UPC: 9780262551137
Item Number (DPCI): 247-30-2380
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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