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Labore stehen in der jüngsten Vergangenheit zunehmend im Fokus der öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit, das Bedürfnis nach spektakulärer Laborarchitektur hat weltweit Hochkonjunktur. Die Beiträge untersuchen exemplarisch ausgewählte neuzeitliche, moderne undzeitgenössische naturwissenschaftliche Laborbauten und zeichnen dabei den Wandel vom geschlossenen zum heute dominierenden "open lab" nach.

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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 fa‡ades and internal structures can take very different forms.

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""New Laboratories" liefert Denkanstöße und Architekturbeispiele, von denen nicht nur der Wissenschaftsdiskurs, sondern auch die Architekturpraxis profitieren kann."Verena Schmidt in: Bauwelt 25.2017, 54-55

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Charlotte Klonk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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