{"id":5414,"date":"2009-03-06T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2009-03-06T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:22:00","slug":"how-does-architecture-affect-academic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/how-does-architecture-affect-academic-study\/","title":{"rendered":"How does architecture affect academic study?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/education\/higher\/how-does-architecture-affect-academic-study-1637271.html\"> How does architecture affect academic study?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can architecture promote intellectual excellence? On a cramped site in Oxford, in the university&#8217;s new biochemistry building designed by Hawkins\\Brown, even eminent boffins can&#8217;t resist putting a new spin on Le Corbusier&#8217;s modernist declaration that buildings should be &#8220;machines for living in&#8221;. The head of biochemistry, Professor Kim Nasmyth, says: &#8220;Actually, this building is an interaction machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent: How does architecture affect academic study? Can architecture promote intellectual excellence? On a cramped site in Oxford, in the university&#8217;s new biochemistry building designed by Hawkins\\Brown, even eminent boffins can&#8217;t resist putting a new spin on Le Corbusier&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/how-does-architecture-affect-academic-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[1288933,2610],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-conditions","tag-academics","tag-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}