Beginning in the mid-1960s, courses in “historic preservation” entered a number of American universities, later developing into discrete academic programs by the 1970s.1 These programs, many…
The field of heritage conservation in India was formally established in 1861 through the creation of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and was the…
Issue 10.1 Conservation: Discipline & Profession Change Over Time is pleased to announce the launch of 10.1 Conservation – Discipline & Profession. Since its emergence…
With an expression of intensity that later broke into a grin, Eden Marek, a graduate research assistant from Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional…
Historic preservation in the United States has an image problem. The field has evolved from a conversation among an elite few regarding select monumental buildings…
Conservation is a profession that works within, and for, the public sector, as well as for private clients who wish to preserve significant cultural material for the future. Support for…
Soundscape is defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the “acoustic environment as perceived or experienced and/or understood by a person or people,…
In 1895, when the young physicist Wallace Clement Sabine examined the reverberation time of a lecture hall on Harvard’s campus, the science of architectural acoustics…
The earliest known reference to the technology of acoustic vessels is found in Marcus Vitruvius Pollio’s fifth book of the Ten Books on Architecture, in the…
Issue 9.2 Sounding Heritage Change Over Time is pleased to announce 9.2 Sounding Heritage. Our contributors consider ‘sound in heritage’ from a variety of disciplinary perspectives…
Annie Goh, Elías Gálvez-Arango, Brian Morris, Alexa Romano, Samantha Turley, Sophia Colello, William Penniman, Jack Boffa, Celine Wang, Gregory Depaul, & Kevin Keene In this…
Textile factory owner Jacques Meyer meant well when he commissioned the construction of Meyershof, one of Berlin’s largest Mietskasernen (civil rental barracks or tenements), in…
Dr. Sabine von Fischer is an architect, architectural critic, historian, and writer based in Zürich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the interconnections of acoustics, sound,…
Presented with the preceding image, and the observation that the acoustics within the large structures are “superb,” what would you conclude about the original use…
Few institutions prominently feature sound recordings of architectural spaces directly. Archives may include audio/visual materials that offer sources of study, such as descriptions of built…
