2024-05-05T03:19:43-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/146197523/have-you-listened-to-your-building Julia Ingalls 2016-01-20T14:46:00-05:00 >2016-02-09T23:52:44-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9x/9x179e6emetro9e6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Derek Sugden, the dean of acoustic engineers, who has died at the age of 91, remained perpetually surprised that architects could be so concerned with every aspect of the building they were designing &lsquo;but not really with what it sounded like&rsquo;. According to Sugden, &lsquo;the sound is as important as the surface and the feel. It&rsquo;s important because our ears define for me the nature of space.&rsquo;</p></em><br /><br /><p>So not everyone can be Yasuhisa Toyota, but still: paying attention to the acoustics of a space should be a vital component of the architectural design process, yeah?</p><p><strong>Related:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/82294677/master-acoustician-yasuhisa-toyota-talks-about-kickstarting-his-career-with-the-disney-concert-hall" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Master acoustician, Yasuhisa Toyota, talks about kickstarting his career with the Disney Concert Hall</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/26740/david-byrne-is-playing-the-building" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Byrne is Playing the Building</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/144515110/take-a-listen-to-the-nyt-s-beautiful-sonic-portraits-of-architectural-spaces" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Take a listen to the NYT's beautiful sonic portraits of architectural spaces</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/146041501/the-art-of-architecture-criticism-archinect-sessions-one-to-one-7-with-michael-kimmelman-architecture-critic-for-the-new-york-times" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Art of Architecture Criticism: Archinect Sessions One-to-One #7 with Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times</a></li></ul><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/a0/a0sm5wq4xyg9mcat.jpg"></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/4395299/art-of-data-spatialization archikvetch 2011-04-27T18:52:43-04:00 >2011-04-27T19:03:49-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/np/np3jc9e185htekng.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> CRCA Exchange #8 - The Art of Data Spatialization Featuring CRCA/Calit2 researchers Todd Margolis, Joachim Gossmann, and Rick Snow<br> Friday April 29, 5pm - 7pm<br> CRCA Spatialization Lab<br> Room 1604. Atkinson Hall<br> UCSD Voigt Drive, La Jolla</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Presentations are followed by refreshments and are open to the public.</p> <p> The CRCA Exchange series is supported by The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, in conjunction with Calit2 and the UCSD 50th Anniversary.</p> <p> For more information on the CRCA Exchange series, please visit <a href="http://crca.ucsd.edu/exchange/Participants" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this<br> link</a>.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <strong>Atlas in Silico</strong><br> Todd Margolis (CRCA Technical Director) will co-present the virtual reality installation ATLAS in Silico. Margolis will describe how the project fuses art and emerging technologies with pioneering science. The immersive and interactive installation is the product of years of research collaborations spanning the visual arts, music, computer science and metagenomics and has been shown to over 100,000 people in galleries, museu...</p>