The physical space of science: the Neurosciences Institute and Skirkanich Hall

This is the first in a series of articles that Landes Bioscience will publish about the physical space where research takes place-the laboratories and classrooms where the science you read about in our journals is happening. Here we interviewed New York-based architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien about two of their projects, The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla and Skirkanich Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. We asked them, among other things, how they engaged scientists in the design process. Here is their response.