This is your brain on architecture

[mdlbear]

This Is Your Brain on Architecture | Cannell | Fast Company

In the 1950s Jonas Salk was working on a cure for polio in the basement of a Pittsburgh laboratory. Stymied and discouraged, he went to Assisi, Italy and wandered around a 13rd-century monastery. There, among the cloisters, he felt his mind unwind. Fresh lines of pursuit came to him, including the breakthrough that led to the vaccine.

Salk was convinced that the monastery had influenced his mind. So convinced, in fact, that he solicited the architect Louis Kahn to design the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, in hopes that other scientists might benefit from serene surroundings.

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[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I have friends who have worked there in the past and got out with their sanity, mostly. Apparently, the serene surroundings are still no match for toxic management style. Allegedly.

[gorgeousgary]

Hmm...apparently, I need some more blue around this place...