Knowledge Worlds by Reinhold Martin

Author:Reinhold Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: EDU040000, Education/Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, DES008000, Design/History & Criticism
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

7.9 John Galen Howard, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, University of California, Berkeley, 1907. Mining laboratory. “The New University of California,” Architectural Record 23, no. 4 (April 1908), 287.

Because in any case the future needs of a science of mines were largely unknown, Howard designed the overall building as a shell with maximum interior “elasticity.” Interior walls were removable and, most dramatically, the exhaust chimneys around which laboratory work was done were isolated down to the foundations, so that they might be replaced, removed, or relocated without damage to the surrounding structure. The Hearst Memorial Mining Building was the first purpose-built facility of its type, though by this point there were a number of new scientific laboratories in the United States and in Europe.62 Some, like the Jefferson Physical Laboratory completed at Harvard in 1884, had already tectonically isolated interior laboratory spaces in order to ensure optimum experimental conditions.63 In a comparable fashion, the Hearst building isolated materials, phenomena, and techniques associated with an external, geographic frontier, folding that frontier inward, beyond its territorial limits and toward the seemingly limitless horizons of scientific and technological research.

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