Salk Institute
Jonas Salk - discovered polio vaccine, university of Pittsburg
- mayor of San Diego was a polio survivor - unanimously decided to offer Salk the land
- relationship with Louis Kahn - architect
- "if you don't know where you're going, you'll find someone who will tell you where to go"
- cross-pollenation: different scientists interacting
- all surfaces raw, no paint or polish
- 6 story building, but 3 are used for storage and piping
- natural light
- don't look for a specific field when hiring, look for people doing interesting things
- no matter what they do here, it doesn't matter if it isn't communicated effectively
Design dept. consists of:
- videographer
- photographer
- illustrator
- two designers
- old school graphic artist
- full team of writers and editors, web
- everyone is working toward getting published in medical magazines
- institute runs on events
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