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ByPeter Galison
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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How do the spaces in which science is done shape the identity of the scientist andthe self-conception of scientific fields? How do the sciences structure the identity of thearchitect and the practice of architecture in a specific period? And how does the design of spacessuch as laboratories, hospitals, and museums affect how the public perceives and interacts with theworld of science? The Architecture of Science offers a dazzling set of speculations on these issuesby historians of science, architecture, and art; architectural theorists; and sociologists as wellas practicing scientists and architects. The essays are organized into six sections: |Of Secrecy andOpenness: Science and Architecture in Early Modern Europe|; |Displaying and Concealing Technics inthe Nineteenth Century|; |Modern Space|; |Is Architecture Science?|; |Princeton after Modernism: TheLewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology|; and |Centers, Cities, and Colliders.|
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