The architecture of science

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."

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. 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 -- 1…