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"This text presents interdisciplinary speculations on how architecture and science influence each other's practice, development and self-identity. The essays are organized into six sections: ""Of Secrecy and Openness""; ""Science and Architecture in Early Modern Europe""; ""Displaying and Concealing Technics in the 19th Century""; ""Modern Space""; ""Is Architecture Science?""; ""Princton after Postmodernism: The Lewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology""; and ""Centres, Cities and Colliders""."

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Author:   Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University) ,  Emily Thompson (Professor, Princeton University)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 5.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.155kg
ISBN:  

9780262071901

ISBN 10:   0262071908
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   29 April 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Peter Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is the author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time, How Experiments End, and Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, among other books, and coeditor (with Emily Thompson) of The Architecture of Science (MIT Press, 1999). Emily Thompson is a Professor of History at Princeton University.

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