Publication: Architectures of Global Communication: Psychoacoustics, Acoustic Space, and the Total Environment, 1941-1970
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2014-06-06
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Touloumi, Olga. 2014. Architectures of Global Communication: Psychoacoustics, Acoustic Space, and the Total Environment, 1941-1970. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
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This dissertation examines architectural engagements with communication technologies, within the framework of mid-twentieth-century efforts to institute a global community and engineer media democracies. I interrogate the sound modernities that architects constructed in collaboration with engineers, officials, and acousticians, and I demonstrate the architectural strategies that informed them: the theater, the concert hall, the cinema. These interiors, I argue, reconfigured the international community as a networked audience, and the institutions of world organization as the main stages of international diplomacy.
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Architecture, Communication, History of science, acoustics, architecture, communication, global village, multimedia, sound
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