Sound and Architecture: This class is designed to discover how architecture effects the sound within and around a space. Students will learn how to design spaces focusing on how to appropriately direct/control the interaction of sound related to how a space will be used. Not only will students become more familiar with the physics of sound within/around buildings from an academic perspective, but the class will venture into various rooms/buildings to encounter sound within a space first-hand. The class will focus on how to eliminate sound pollution, increase clarity of sound, create noise cancellation/insulation, and improve acoustics for specific circumstances in preexisting spaces as well as the design of new spaces with these concepts in mind. This is a useful part of the architectural education because the way sound interacts within buildings has many psychological effects on the individuals who inhabit these spaces (i.e. how hard it is to hear in a space, amount of noise pollution, resonance of sound, etc.). Architects should think about this in their designs so the way in which sound travels/interacts with the structure is fitting for the function of that particular space. This class is an architecture elective within the curriculum.