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The architecture of science

Peter Galison and Emily Ann Thompson
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  • Frontmatter
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  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
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  • Notes on Contributors (page xiii)
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  • 1 Building and the Subject of Science (Peter Galison, page 1)
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  • I OF SECRECY AND OPENNESS: SCIENCE AND ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    • 2 Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum (Paula Findlen, page 29)
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    • 3 Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius (William R. Newman, page 59)
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    • 4 Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy (Pamela O. Long, page 79)
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  • II DISPLAYING AND CONCEALING TECHNICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    • 5 Architectures for Steam (M. Norton Wise, page 107)
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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 (Myles W. Jackson, page 141)
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    • 7 The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangements and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions (George W. Stocking Jr., page 165)
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    • 8 Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain (Sophie Forgan, page 181)
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  • III MODERN SPACE
    • 9 "Spatial Mechanics": Scientific Metaphors in Architecture (Adrian Forty, page 213)
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    • 10 Diagramming the New World, or Hannes Meyer's "Scientization" of Architecture (K. Michael Hays, page 233)
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    • 11 Listening to/for Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Development of Modern Spaces in America (Emily Thompson, page 253)
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    • 12 Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital (Allen M. Brandt and David C. Sloane, page 281)
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  • IV IS ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE?
    • 13 Architecture, Science, and Technology (Antoine Picon, page 309)
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    • 14 Architecture as Science: Analogy or Disjunction? (Alberto Pérez-Gómez, page 337)
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    • 15 The Mutual Limits of Architecture and Science (Kenneth Frampton, page 353)
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    • 16 The Hounding of the Snark (Denise Scott Brown, page 375)
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  • V PRINCETON AFTER MODERNISM: THE LEWIS THOMAS LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
    • 17 Thoughts on the Architecture of the Scientific Workplace: Community, Change, and Continuity (Robert Venturi, page 385)
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    • 18 The Design Process for the Human Workplace (James Collins Jr., page 399)
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    • 19 Life in the Lewis Thompson Laboratory (Arnold J. Levine, page 413)
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    • 20 Two Faces on Science: Building Identities for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Thomas F. Gieryn, page 423)
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  • VI CENTERS, CITIES, AND COLLIDERS
    • 21 Architecture at Fermilab (Robert R. Wilson, page 459)
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    • 22 The Architecture of Science: From D'Arcy Thompson to the SSC (Moshe Safdie, page 475)
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    • 23 Factory, Laboratory, Studio: Dispersing Sites of Production (Peter Galison and Caroline A. Jones, page 497)
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  • Index (page 541)
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Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JSAH 60.1 (Mar. 2001): 104-107 http://www.jstor.org/stable/991690
TC 41.4 (Oct. 2000): 854-856 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147639
ISIS 92.2 (Jun. 2001): 354-355 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3080635
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Published: c1999
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780262071901 (hardcover)
  • 9780262526456 (paper)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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