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SOUND ARCHITECTURE: The Spaces that Speak
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Trevor Cox explores the idea of aural architecture – architecture for your ears.
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Building design and city planning is dominated by the visual. But a new science is emerging which is exploring the soundscapes generated within and by the structures we inhabit, many of which can have a profound effect on how we feel, behave and interact with each other. It’s called aural or sound architecture.
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Until very recently few architects ever gave much thought to the acoustic experience of those using their designs and the result the world over is what one expert calls, Aural Combat – noisy restaurants where conversation reverberates off the walls, echoey train stations with unintelligible platform announcements and even school classrooms where pupils sitting in the front of the class have less chance of hearing the teacher clearly than those sitting at the back.
In Sound Architecture: The Spaces that Speak, Professor Trevor Cox, science broadcaster and an acoustician from Salford University, hears for himself how some spaces 'speak' and meets architects, designers and researchers hoping to transform our aural experience for the better.
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BBC Science & Nature
Barry Blesser – Blesser AssociatesB
Boston Symphony Hall
ARUP Sound Lab
The Architect’s Journal
Snohetta architects and The World Trade Centre plans for the memorial garden and cultural centre
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