Archinect - News2024-12-22T01:10:36-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/120049193/stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-as-cern-s-architect-in-residence
Stand on the shoulders of giants as CERN's architect in residence Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-02-05T15:40:00-05:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/bo/bouymi6kwtxy070c.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A year before discovering the Higgs boson, aka “God”, particle, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) established its own arts residency. Formed in 2011, the Collide@CERN program pairs artists with CERN physicists in Geneva to collaborate on art and research projects, banking on the idea that artistic experimentation and theoretical physicists are both ultimately concerned with the same thing: "both are ways to explore our existence – what it is to be human and our place in the universe,” <a href="http://gizmodo.com/cern-wants-artists-and-architects-working-alongside-its-1681784895?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">according to</a> program director Ariane Koek. The first collaboration between artist Julius von Bismarck and theoretical physicist James Wells was so fruitful that CERN developed Accelerate@CERN in 2013, which enables a country to set up and sponsor a specific "Research Stay" within CERN’s labs. Now, Austria is looking for an architect to work at CERN.</p><p>What does this entail? For one month of pure research, an architect will be paired with a CERN physicist – to work, think, and ideate to...</p>