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Review: Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space

2022; University of California Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2022.81.3.379

2150-5926

Carlotta Darò,

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space Joseph L. Clarke Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, 320 pp., 10 color and 91 b/w illus. $60 (cloth), ISBN 9780822946571 Carlotta Darò Carlotta Darò Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (3): 379–380. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.3.379 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Carlotta Darò; Review: Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2022; 81 (3): 379–380. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.3.379 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In an academic world dominated by an overspecialization of knowledge, Joseph L. Clarke’s book on echo chambers comes as a breath of fresh air, connecting as it does with a universal tradition of architectural history. Each chapter of the book treats a period of modern acoustic history through key figures while simultaneously displaying virtuosity in mining the humanistic knowledge of antiquity. Starting with the seventeenth-century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher’s inventive geometric interpretation of echoes, the author progresses to the proto-psychoacoustic approach developed by the eighteenth-century architect Pierre Patte, followed by Carl Ferdinand Langhans’s early nineteenth-century investigations into immersive spatial simulators such as the pleorama, and then concludes with the genesis of two seminal projects for the study of acoustics in architectural history: Richard Wagner and Otto Brückwald’s Festspielhaus in Bayreuth (1876) and Le Corbusier’s Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp (1955). In terms of both research and fields... You do not currently have access to this content.