New laboratories : historical and critical perspectives on contemporary developments / edited by Charlotte Klonk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klonk, Charlotte, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research institutes.

Laboratories.

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Labore gestern und heute - interdisziplinäre Studien

New laboratory buildings are currently being planned all around the world. Are they different from or even better than their predecessors? To answer this question, the authors of this book have journeyed into the past and present of laboratory architecture. They discuss the images of the research scientist and the laboratory that have been purveyed since the natural sciences were institutionalised in the nineteenth century. They also examine contemporary architectural solutions in the light of influential laboratory architectures of the latter half of the twentieth century, thereby discovering a great variety of approaches, historical and contemporary - for both the functional interrelation of spaces and the tension between symbolic façades and internal structures can take very different forms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction / Klonk, Charlotte

2. The Laboratory as a Subject of Research / Landbrecht, Christina / Straub, Verena

The Image of the Laboratory

3. Science in Pictures: A Historical Perspective / Straub, Verena

4. The Myth of Transparency / Landbrecht, Christina

Function and Design

5. Between Service and Representation: Scientific Architecture since the Mid-Twentieth Century / Hansmann, Sabine

6. Informal Spaces in Laboratories / Rabe, Henrike

Berlin Case Studies

7. The Institute of Chemistry at the Humboldt University Berlin from 1900 to the Present / Göbel, Ronald

8. Planning a New Laboratory: The Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences in Berlin-Adlershof

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Index

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-036693-2

3-11-039248-8

OCLC:

979847159