Sound modernities: histories of media and modern architecture
Congratulations to Olga Touloumi, Bard College, Art History and Sabine von Fischer
Issure 6: Sound Modernities: Histories of Media and Modern Architecture
“This set of essays tries to broaden scholarship on acoustics and architecture by investigating how architects and buildings dealt with sound at large. Our brilliant contributors – Jack Quinan, Gretta Tritch Roman, Michael Windover, Sandra Jasper, David Theodore, Carlotta Daro, Shundana Yusaf, put forward an interesting array of building programs to consider while investigating acoustic cultures: radio stations, prairie houses, libraries, hospitals, stock exchanges, wastelands, assembly halls, as well as concert halls and prairie houses, all made it in the issue. This special issue has been a long time in the making and we are extremely thankful to the Society of Architectural Historians and Ken Oshima for offering the initial platform for our panel in 2014; Viktoria Tkaczyk and the research group Epistemes of the Modern Acoustics at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science for hosting our workshop and allowing us to expand the scope in 2016; and the editor-in-chief Charles Rice of the Journal of Architecture for trusting and publishing this work.” Olga Touloumi
