Title & Author:

The sound of architecture : acoustic atmospheres in place / edited by Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou.

Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index.
Acknowledgments Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou -- Introduction -- Atmospheres that touch / Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou -- Section #01: room vibrations -- Listening with Christian Norberg-Schulz: sonic experience and music theory in his writings / Anna Ulrikke Andersen -- Setting the tone in early 20th-century north American living rooms: the parlor piano / Michael Windover and James Deaville -- Playing to the room: the recording studio as instrument / Timothy Carry -- Vibe, c. 1969: the technicity of operative ambience in Jimi Hendrix's electric lady studios / Clemens Finkelstein -- Resonant rooms as tuning forks: architectural implications of sound art / Ross K. Elfine -- Section #02: building pitches -- The happiness of the world as its birth: acoustic atmosphere in the 'general effect' of Ledoux's Theater of Besançon / Paul Holmquist -- Acoustics at 1:10: miniaturizing atmosphere / Carlotta Darò -- The electronic campanile at Ronchamp / Joseph L. Clarke -- Chromesthesia and the multiverse of listening in music and architecture: Luigi Nono in collaboration with Renzo Piano / Federica Goffi -- Tools of immersion: drawing the acoustic atmosphere of the Philips Pavilion / Elisavet Kiourtsglou -- Section #03: city tunes -- The instrumentarium of Kircher: premises of a universal phonurgy / Cécile Regnault -- Dissolving in the air: Mrs. Dalloway's sonorous modern London / Angeliki Sioli -- Lacrimae Rerum and tears of memory: sonic encounters in the public realm / Karen Van Lengen -- The border between sound and silence: sonic preservation at the Berlin Wall / Pamela Jordan -- Listen and write! addressing urban soundscapes in architectural education / Klaske Havik and Michael de Beer -- Echoes -- On atmospheres and other difficulties: a conversation with Alberto Pérez-Gómez / Angeliki Sioli -- Places where silence is eloquent / Ricardo L. Castro

Summary:

Acoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct impressions each time we visit certain places. Stable or dynamic, acoustic atmospheres have a powerful effect on our spatial experience, sometimes even more so than architecture itself. This book explores the acoustic atmospheres of diverse architectural environments, in terms of scale, function, location, or historic period - providing an overview of how acoustic atmospheres are created, perceived, experienced, and visualized. Contributors explore how sound and its atmospheres transform architecture and space. Their essays demonstrate that sound is a tangible element in the design and staging of atmospheres and that it should become a central part of the spatial explorations of architects, designers, and urban planners. 'The Sound of Architecture' will be of interest to architectural historians, theorists, students, and practicing architects, who will discover how acoustic atmospheres can be created without complex and specialized engineering. It will also be of value to scholars working in the field of history of emotions, as it offers evocative descriptions of acoustic atmospheres from diverse cultures and time periods.

ISBN:

9462703213 (paperback)
9789462703216 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Acoustics.
Sound.
Hearing.
Architecture Acoustique.
Architectural acoustics
Acoustical engineering
Absorption of sound

Added entries:

Sioli, Angeliki, editor.
Kiourtsoglou, Elisavet, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318936
Call No.: 318936
Copy: 1
Status: Available