The Independent: How does architecture affect academic study?
Can architecture promote intellectual excellence? On a cramped site in Oxford, in the university’s new biochemistry building designed by Hawkins\Brown, even eminent boffins can’t resist putting a new spin on Le Corbusier’s modernist declaration that buildings should be “machines for living in”. The head of biochemistry, Professor Kim Nasmyth, says: “Actually, this building is an interaction machine.”
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