ARe you listening ?

Do you think architecture can be heard ?

Yes!!!

In our techno-visual culture, the ascendancy of vision as the primary means for sensing the physical world has undermined the importance of hearing. Yet the aural experience of an environment is critically important to the social and emotional well-being of the inhabitants. However, we tend to only recognize the aural architecture of a space when its hostile and corrosive acoustics transform background sounds into a deafening roar. We then become functionally deaf to local sounds, as if actually deaf.

  A s a profession, prominent architects are rewarded with prizes based on their visual portfolio, and they in turn train the next generation of architects to focus on the visual experience of a space. Have you ever experienced space solely through sound? 

"We never see the same thing, when we also hear it.

We never hear the same thing, when we also see it".

In architecture attention is usually focused towards the visual awareness of space. Without listening, perception remains limited in individual experience; we are less connected to "here and now"; to our world; to a specific space.