THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY: SCIENCE, ARCHITECTURE, ART

The Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge is a new centre dedicated to cutting-edge research into plant development, housed in a new building designed by Stanton Williams which sets new standards for laboratory design. The contributors to The Sainsbury Laboratory, Science, Architecture, Art explore the setting, the architecture and design process, the science, and the art which is integral to the completed laboratory.

Steve Rose comments on the architecture of the Laboratory, and examines the approach of architects Stanton Williams to the design process, and the success of their close collaboration with clients, scientists and advisors throughout.

The evolution of the design demonstrates a subtle understanding of the way in which architecture can create a stimulating working environment.

The Sainsbury Laboratory: Science, Architecture, Art features an introduction by Lord David Sainsbury and essays by Steve Rose, John Parker and Stephen Day. The book includes a DVD illustrating the design and construction with film and interviews.

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VOLUME

'For the last 20 years, Stanton Williams have quietly carved a path that makes no reference to objects, style or concepts, and this protects them from the crisis now facing the architectural imagination, caught between a seemingly insatiable appetite for difference and a desire for more lasting significance.' Irénée Scalbert.

Volume is that rare thing – a book about architecture and design that is also an accessible treatise about people, buildings, art and craft mixing thoughts with imagery, text with design.

The book is a journey through the work and world view of Stanton Williams that takes the reader from interviews to project details by way of elegant design and specially commissioned photography.Texts by Stephen Bayley, Irénée Scalbert and David Taylor

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QUART VERLAG

'Stanton Williams architecture has evolved from modernism which acknowledges its place in the world, in the landscape, a modernism that grows from the material and culture of a specific site. They have built an oeuvre which reintroduces exactly those qualities of substance and touch, of engagement with the site and the topography and with the history of that modernism which is not fled into reduction but into refinement.' Edwin Heathcote

Swiss publisher Quart Verlag is launching its new series of books De aedibus international with recent works by Stanton Williams.

The publication features projects and competition schemes of the practice both in the UK and abroad. Introductory essay by Edwin Heathcote, text in German and English.

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