Grey Room

Editor’s Introduction

Joseph L. Clarke

Moving a bow across a metal plate to produce “sound figures,” following Ernst Chladni’s experiments in the 1780s. From William Henry Stone, Elementary Lessons on Sound (1879).

Abstract

This issue provides an opportunity to displace the traditional visual methods of architectural scholarship and answer the audio engineer Barry Blesser’s challenge for architectural thinkers to establish a disciplinary sensitivity to the auditory dimension of buildings and spaces that does not merely fall back on the language of acoustic science.

Editor’s Introduction

Joseph L. Clarke

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