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The Richards laboratory (90,000 s.f.) is organized into 4 connected towers of eight stories each. After the medical Research Lab was finished, it received an incredible amount of attention for its architecture and engineering. … However, the criticism of doctors working in the lab was not so favorable… complaints of window arrangements and solid block partitions. Glare disturbed equipment, not flexible. | |
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Dr. Gutman:
I suspect that nowhere in the history of the 20th century architecture could one find a better example of an edifice which, over the same interval of time, has: i) Enhanced the stature of the creator in the eyes of his profession (students of architecture swarm around this building like Beatle Fans at a rock festival) and ii) Seriously impeded the progress of medical science, because of its gross inadequacies from the view point of those who have to use it. Of course, as a tenant of five and a half years' standing in the Richards building, I'll be happy to meet with you. We can discuss the problems of disassembly and crating for transmission to the Smithsonian Institute. sent by a chairman of a department and fellow of the royal society (Ellis, Architects People 1989) |
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