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- Title
Thinking through Noise, Building toward Silence: Creating a Sound Mind and Sound Architecture in the Premodern City.
- Authors
ATKINSON, NIALL
- Abstract
The article discusses sound architecture in premodern cities in relation to the psychology of noise. Topics include the views of the philosopher Seneca on urban noise near a bath house, the views of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on noise in Frankfurt, Germany, and a letter by author Anton Francsco Doni on noise in Venice, Italy. Letters by the orator Pliny the Younger and painter Agnolo Bronzino are also noted.
- Subjects
CITY noise; NOISE pollution; PLINY, the Younger, ca. 61-ca. 112; NOISE &; psychology; SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur, 1788-1860; DONI, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574; BRONZINO, Agnolo, 1503-1572; HISTORY
- Publication
Grey Room, 2015, Vol 60, p10
- ISSN
1526-3819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/GREY_a_00174