Science and art naturally overlap. Both are a means of investigation. Both involve ideas, theories, and hypotheses that are tested in places where mind and hand come together(the laboratory and studio). Artists, like scientists, study materials, people, culture, history, religion, mythology and learn to transform information into something else. In ancient Greece, the word for art was techne, from which technique and technology are derived terms
be defined. The final decision was made to not grant one architect the project, but multiple. Architects Henri Deglane, Albert Louvet, Albert Thomas and Charles Girault set out to design a building that could house the exhibitions of fine art and decorative art in 1896. Construction started in 1987. It took three years to construct the Grand Palais, with more than 1500 people working on site during peak construction phase and over 40 contemporary artists working on the mosaics, friezes and statues