Modern concert halls and opera houses are now very specialized buildings with special acoustical characteristics. With new contemporary case-studies this updated book explores these characteristics as an important resource for architects engineers and auditorium technicians. Supported by over 40 detailed case studies and architectural drawings of 75 auditoria at a scale of 1:500 the survey of each auditorium type is completed with a discussion of current best practice to achieve optimum acoustics. |Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design