Research Project and Thesis
von Fischer, Sabine
The ever broader range of equipment installed in buildings has turned what were once places of private retreat within closed walls into hyperactive spaces with constant background noise. Measures to regulate sound transmission, insulation, controlled acoustic irradiation and the constant hum of air-conditioning have fundamentally changed the auditory environment, as well as the relationship between interior and exterior spaces.
In an investigation of sound spaces and atmospheres in the nexus of aesthetic, cultural and technological change, 20th Century architectural history is rendered audible and regarded from a new angle, in the light of a cultural history of the sound of architecture.
von Fischer, Sabine
The ever broader range of equipment installed in buildings has turned what were once places of private retreat within closed walls into hyperactive spaces with constant background noise. Measures to regulate sound transmission, insulation, controlled acoustic irradiation and the constant hum of air-conditioning have fundamentally changed the auditory environment, as well as the relationship between interior and exterior spaces.
In an investigation of sound spaces and atmospheres in the nexus of aesthetic, cultural and technological change, 20th Century architectural history is rendered audible and regarded from a new angle, in the light of a cultural history of the sound of architecture.