On the Art and Science of Making Buildings Sound Natural | Aeon Essays

Oct 6

“The importance ascribed to naturalness convinced theatre architects that their work should be directly informed by physics, the study of nature. The most extensive acoustic theory put forward in the 18th century was written by the architect Pierre Patte in 1782. Patte had carefully studied numerous theatres and, although he never built one of his own, his book included a model design (below).”