Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Buildings and the Subject of Science

Peter Galison

I OF SECRECY AND OPENNESS: SCIENCE AND ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum

Paula Findlen

Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius

William R. Newman

Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy

Pamela O. Long

II DISPLAYING AND CONCEALING TECHNICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Architectures for Steam

M. Norton Wise

Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofer's Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory

Myles W. Jackson

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

Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain

Sophie Forgan

III MODERN SPACE

``Spatial Mechanics'': Scientific Metaphors in Architecture

Adrian Forty

Diagramming the New World, or Hannes Meyer's ``Scientization'' of Architecture

K. Michael Hays

Listening to/for Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Development of Modern Spaces in America

Emily Thompson

Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital

Allan M. Brandt

David C. Sloane

IV IS ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE?

Architecture, Science, and Technology

Antoine Picon

Architecture as Science: Analogy or Disjunction?

Alberto Perez-Gomez

The Mutual Limits of Architecture and Science

Kenneth Frampton

The Hounding of the Snark

Denise Scott Brown

V PRINCETON AFTER MODERNISM: THE LEWIS THOMAS LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Thoughts on the Architecture of the Scientific Workplace: Community, Change, and Continuity

Robert Venturi

The Design Process for the Human Workplace

James Collins

Life in the Lewis Thomas Laboratory

Arnold J. Levine

Two Faces on Science: Building Identities for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Thomas F. Gieryn

VI CENTERS, CITIES, AND COLLIDERS

Architecture at Fermilab

Robert R. Wilson

The Architecture of Science: From D'Arcy Thompson to the SSC

Moshe Safdie

Factory, Laboratory, Studio: Dispersing Sites of Production

Peter Galison

Caroline A. Jones

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