As a building type, laboratories are a relatively recent invention. Today's modern scientific society demands special equipment, space and accommodation for work that has grown increasingly specialized and dangerous over the past decades.
As diverse as science itself, the wide range of labs presented in this book address issues such as 'green' and sustainable labs, security and safety and the conversion of existing buildings into state-of-the-art scientific facilities. Dr. Crosbie discusses the challenges relating to incorporating labs into existing university campuses, and ways of alleviating, through thoughtful design, the stresses on those associated with intensive research.
An introduction by leading international laboratory designer, Boston based Payette Associates, analyzes the many factors that make a successful building for science, and how these can be addressed by a collaboration between the building designers and laboratory specialists.
The Author
Dr. Michael J. Crosbie is an internationally recognized author, architect, journalist, critic and teacher. A former editor of Progressive Architecture and Architecture, he is the author of more than a dozen books on the subject. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Faith & Form magazine, lectures widely on religious architecture and design, is an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University, and practices with Steven Winter Associates in Norwalk, Ct.
Features facilities for research and education in medicine, marine biology, biochemistry, physics, general science and technology, and others
Almost 40 projects presented in full color
Editor is one of North America's leading architectural editors and writers
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