Surprising Ways Sound Shapes our Environment

There is no such thing as ‘perfect acoustics.’ Rather, there is no absolute ideal for acoustic environments, only a series of guidelines and a range of possible scenarios. The soundscape is something to be designed as much as any other aspect of a building. Buildings are like instruments that channel sound— an aspect of architectural design that is often overlooked in how it shapes our overall experience of space. This video explores the topic of building acoustics, from performance spaces—where we expect acoustics to be an important consideration— to the urban environment at large, to buildings that use sound creatively, all the way to buildings that operate like instruments in other unexpected and even more covert ways

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Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.

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