Globe article on innovations in lab architecture
An article in Sunday’s Boston Globe Ideas section discusses innovations
in science lab architecture, the new Stata Center designed by Frank
Gehry cited as a particular example, the idea being that these
buildings are eye-catching on the outside and on the inside designed to
make people from disparate groups come into contact with each
other. Interdisciplinarity is the watchword. Does it really
work? This is the way Rowland has conducted business for quite
some time. Scientists exchange ideas at lunches, seminars,
reviews, or just walking around. And we have an electronics shop
and a machine shop which serve all the groups and really know their
experiments and can bring a different perspective. However, the
Globe article points out, things are not always so rosy with some of
the new projects. For the Stata Center, people complain about
noise and traffic and cost overruns.
