2024-12-22T03:01:23-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/47964926/the-golden-age-of-the-concert-hall Nam Henderson 2012-05-10T12:05:00-04:00 >2012-05-10T12:05:44-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/l3/l3x6z1ntanfyx3zh.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Victoria Newhouse - "aesthetically I think they are greatly improved from what we had before...they're smaller and more intimate...more inviting...they are acoustically improved...and many of them have the ability to be reconfigured...all of this leads to a very exciting scene"</p></em><br /><br /><p> Victoria Newhouse author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Site-Sound-Architecture-Acoustics-Concert/dp/1580932819" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls</a>&nbsp;along with&nbsp;Daniel Libeskind, Michael Kaiser and Renee Fleming were on Charlie Rose last month, to discuss the current explosion of "<strong>literally hundreds</strong>" of new opera houses and concert halls under construction. In <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304356604577340211822833758.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a recent review for the Wall Street Journal, Ada Louise Huxtable summing up the lesson of the book</a> wrote "<em>But Ms. Newhouse has learned that ideal acoustics are not even necessary for a hall to succeed. The essential factor is ambience</em>".</p>