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Volume 22, Number 11
01 June 2003

pp 2537-2872

Cover. 'Teichstein' (photographic collage, 70 times 100 cm). Part of a series entitled 'Synthesen: MPI-CBG Dresden'. The Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany, was constructed by the architects Heikkinen & Komonen and HENN Architekten Ingenieure. From the very beginning the architecture was developed in close collaboration with the scientists to create an inspiring working space to meet the new scientific ideas and concepts which gave rise to the foundation of the MPI-CBG. Ten collages resulted from a photographic analysis of the building, including 'Teichstein', in which the oval pond in the garden is transformed into a rectangular view. The works of the 'Synthesen' series provide a constructive discussion about the architecture of the MPI-CBG, and about building for science in general. Jan C.L.Massner is a PhD student in the group of Professor Jean Pieters in the department of biochemistry at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

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