For the past twenty years, Victoria Meyers, founding partner of hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa), has crafted an architectural and urban design practice including sound as an important aspect of the designed environment. In January 2023 Meyers founded v.Ma_Studio, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY.
Shape of Sound, Victoria's new book, to be published Spring 2014, analizes: shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape; sound politics; sound aesthetics; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence. This sequel to Designing with Light offers theoretical insights into sound and the spatial experience accompanied by several key case studies. These include Meyers’ work with Stephen Vitiello, whose piece "A Bell For Every Minute", animated the New York High Line project, as well as Victoria's collaborations with composer and sound artist Michael Schumacher. Digital Water i-Pavilion (DWi-P), located opposite Ground Zero in Manhattan, is a glass wall animated by Michael Schumacher’s score etched onto the glass facade.
Sound is not simply music, however, and Victoria Meyers reflects upon this in her quest for an understanding of architecture as an auditory environment and through examples of buildings and materials with sonic properties.
Victoria Meyers has been the principal designer of a number of award winning projects at her firm, hMa, including public institutional buildings, urban master plans and residential projects. She received her Masters of Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and specialises in minimalist architecture, sustainability, green urban design, and Sound Urbanism. In the spring semester 2013, Ms. Meyers taught a course at the University of Cincinnati, titled: Sound Urbanism. To see and hear sounds from Victoria's course, visit the class blog: www.soundurbanismuc.typepad.com.
Shape of Sound is scheduled for publication by Artifice in Spring 2014.
detail view of the final frit pattern etched onto the arcade glass wall of DWi-P click here to read more about DWiP on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
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