This essay narrates the story of three mid-to-late-century North American laboratories that produced architectural knowledge regarding the environment. For each laboratory, this essay describes the physical location of inquiry, institutional setting, instruments of investigation, biography of the principal investigator, and the publication that summarized the findings of the laboratory work. Through these descriptions, the essay attempts to identify how each investigator leveraged the model of the laboratory to situate their work in their respective cultural milieu.

ConCave Ph.D. Symposium 2022 Proceedings, April 7-8, 2022. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.