Skrevet af MEYERS
For the past 20 years, Victoria Meyers, a Founding Partner of
hanrahanMeyers architects, has crafted an architectural and urban design
practice that includes sound as an intimate aspect of the designed
environment.
Meyers analyses the shape of sound; architecture
and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its
politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound
art; and silence. This sequel to Designing with Light offers new
theoretical insights into sound and the spatial experience accompanied
by several key case studies. These include Meyers work with Stephen
Vitiello, whose piece A Bell For Every Minute animated the New York High
Line project, and her collaborations with composer and sound artist
Michael Schumacher. Digital Water i-Pavilion, located opposite Ground
Zero in Manhattan, has proved particularly innovative: Schumacher's
score, developed especially for the building, has been etched into a
glass facade which can be played by the public via an app; onlookers
direct their mobile phones at the glass to read and hear the music.
Sound is not simply music however, and Meyers reflects upon this in her
quest for an understanding of architecture as an auditory environment,
through examples of buildings and materials which inspire and possess
characteristic sonic properties.
