Picon, AntoineTouloumi, Olga2014-06-062014-06-062014Touloumi, Olga. 2014. Architectures of Global Communication: Psychoacoustics, Acoustic Space, and the Total Environment, 1941-1970. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11690http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274517This 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.en-USArchitectureCommunicationHistory of scienceacousticsarchitecturecommunicationglobal villagemultimediasoundThesis or Dissertation