LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture

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Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (Dean of Architecture, Univeristy of Queensland) Chris L. Smith (Associate Professor of Achitectural Design and Technê, The University of Sydney)

LabOratory

Speaking of Science and Its Architecture

Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (Dean of Architecture, Univeristy of Queensland), Chris L. Smith (Associate Professor of Achitectural Design and Technê, The University of Sydney)

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MIT Press
06 February 2024

Individual designers; Architecture; Bio-ethics

An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.

An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.

The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an architectural statement. The laboratory is a serious investment in architectural expression in an attempt to persuade us of the value of the science that goes on inside. In this lavishly illustrated book, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Chris L. Smith explore the architecture of modern life science laboratories, and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.

Looking at the varied designs of eleven important laboratories in North America, Europe, and Australia, all built between 2005 and 2019, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith examine the relationship between the design of contemporary laboratory buildings and the ideas and ideologies of science. Observing that every laboratory architect and client declares the same three aspirations-to eliminate boundaries, to communicate the benefits of its research programs, and to foster collaboration-Kaji-O'Grady and Smith organize their account according to the themes of boundaries, expression, and socialization. For instance, they point to the South Australian Health and Medical Institute's translucent envelope as the material equivalent of institutional accountability; the insistent animal imagery of the NavarraBioMed laboratory in Spain; and the Hillside Research Campus's mimicry of the picturesque fishing village that once occupied its site. Through these and their other examples, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith show how the architecture of the laboratory shapes the science that takes place within it.

By: Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (Dean of Architecture Univeristy of Queensland), Chris L. Smith (Associate Professor of Achitectural Design and Technê, The University of Sydney)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262551137
ISBN 10: 0262551136
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sandra Kaji-O'Grady is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. Kaji-O'Grady and Chris Smith are coeditors (with Russell Hughes) of Laboratory Lifestyles- The Construction of Scientific Fictions (MIT Press). Chris L. Smith is Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Techna at the University of Sydney. Smith and Sandra Kaji-O'Grady are coeditors (with Russell Hughes) of Laboratory Lifestyles- The Construction of Scientific Fictions (MIT Press).