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“We have art in order not to perish from the Truth”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We occasionally break from our focus on the technology and management of these “cities-within-cities” and dwell briefly on the primary business of the academy. Academic museums and galleries provide a setting for conveying inherited wisdom to the next generation of cultural leaders. We include in this gallery examples of architectural art of the buildings themselves. Click on images for more artist and location credit. Technical information about safety and sustainability of this facility class appears at the bottom of this page.
“Street Scene, Christmas Morning” 1982 Frederick Childe Hassam | Smith College Museum of Art
“The Prairie is My Garden” | Harvey Dunn (1884-1952) | South Dakota State University Art Museum
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“La Débâcle or Les Glaçons” (1880) | Claude Monet | University of Michigan Museum of Art
Harvard University Art Museum | “Thatched-Roof Cottage by a Lake” | Myles Birket Foster (1825 – 1899)
“The Fall of Novgorod” (1891) / Klaudii Vasilievich Lebedev / University of Wiscosin Chazen Museum of Art
“Dancer” c. 1923 José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud | Museum of Art & Archeology University of Missouri
Brigham University Museum of Art | “Crossing the Mississippi on the Ice” | C.C.A. Christensen (1878)
Self-portrait, 1919 Amedeo Modigliani /Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
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Princeton University Art Museum | “Shinnecock, Long Island” | William Merritt Chase (1896)
Georgetown University Museum of Art | “Fujiyama from Kawaibashi, at Tokaido” (circa 1880) | Kusakabe Kimbei
“Volcanic Cones” 1934 Maynard Dixon | Brigham Young University
University of Virginia Museum of Art | “The Natural Bridge, Virginia” | Frederic Edwin Church (1852)
Colby College Museum of Art | “Frankie and Johnny” | Alex Katz (1948-1949)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art | View on the Hudson | George Inness
University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings (Medicine)
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Princeton University Art Museum | “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge” | Claude Monet (1899)
Dinastía Qing / Penn University Museum
Yale University Art Museum | “Young Woman and Child | Berthe Morisot (1966)
Princeton University Art Museum | “Mount Adams, Washington” | Albert Bierstadt (1875)
Michigan State University | Broad Art Museum
“Piazza San Marco with the Basilica by Canaletto, 1730” / Harvard University Art Museum
“Boathouses and Lobster Pots” | Fairfield Porter | Amherst College Art Museum
Harvard University | In the Sierras, Lake Tahoe (Albert Bierstadt)
Stanford University Art Museum
“Indians Playing Lacrosse on the Ice” 1934 Yale University Art Gallery
Stanford University | “The Burghers of Calais” by Auguste Rodin
University of Texas | Indians of the Northwest (Thomas Hill)
Arizona State University Art Museum
Yale University | The Battle of Bunker Hill (John Trumbull)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | La Pia de Tolomei | University of Kansas Art Museum
University of Minnesota Art Museum
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Museum Collections Security
Several universities host federal enterprises (laboratories, wildlands, Presidential libraries*, etc.) that must conform to Title 40 United States Code, Public Buildings, Property, and Works Paragraph 486(c) provides statutory authority for the head of each executive agency to issue orders and directives necessary to manage the Government’s property.
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 41 Federal Property Management Regulations Part 101, Subpart 20.5 “Physical Protection”, prescribes policies and methods for physically protecting buildings and grounds operated by GSA and other Federal Executive agencies. The Department of the Interior’s property management regulations are in Part 114 of CFR 41.
Museum Management Chapter 14: Museum Collections Security
Standard Methods of Fire Tests for Flame Propagation of Textiles and Films
* There are only a few education communities that host Presidential Libraries:
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum – West Branch, Iowa (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum – Austin, Texas (The University of Texas at Austin)
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum – Ann Arbor, Michigan (The University of Michigan)
George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum – College Station, Texas (Texas A&M University)
“We Plough the Fields, and Scatter”
The hymn is based on a German poem titled “Wir pflügen und wir streuen,” which was written by Matthias Claudius (1740-1815), a German poet and journalist. The poem first appeared in 1782 as part of a larger work, “Paul Erdmann’s Fest,” which was a fictional account of a harvest festival.
Acoustics
Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture. Accordingly, the science of acoustics spreads across many facets of human society—music, medicine, architecture, industrial production and more recently in off-site instructional facilities. Join us today at 15:00 UTC when we review the best practice catalogs of the peak standards-setting organizations for titles relevant to education communities.
American National Standards Institute ANSI S12.18 – Determination of Occupational Noise Exposure and Estimation of Noise-Induced Hearing Impairment: This standard provides guidance on how to measure and assess occupational noise exposure.
ASTM International
Committee on Building and Environmental Acoustics
Entertainment Services and Technology Association
International Code Council: Guideline for Acoustics
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Standard for Acoustic Emissions from Transformers
Standard for Wind Turbine Acoustic Noise Measurement
International Electrotechnical Commission: TC 20 Electroacoustics
International Standardization Organization: TC/43 Acoustics
National Fire Protection Association: National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code
Underwriters Laboratories
Classified Acoustical Performance Summary (Ceiling tiles)
Readings:
National Bureau of Standards: Standards on Noise Measurements, Rating Schemes and Definitions
United States Department of Labor: Occupational Noise Exposure
IEEE: Design and Implementation of an Adaptive and Effective Audio System for Classroom
Why Acoustics Matter So Much in Medical Facilities
IBC Section 1207 | Classroom Acoustics
Chapter 12 of the 2021 International Building Code provides minimum provisions for the interior of building–the occupied environment. Ventilation, lighting and space heating are directly regulated in this chapter and in conjunction with the International Mechanical Code and the International Energy Conservation Code. Minimum room size and maximum root–to-room sound transmission are set for certain occupancies.
Chapter 12 Interior Environment
Section 1207 asserts a requirement for “Enhanced Classroom Acoustics” that recognizes occupants with special needs for all classrooms with a volume larger than 20,000 cubic feet or less, articulated in Section 808 of 2017 ICC A117.1, the latest version. Widespread use of personal hearing appliances — headphones — have complicated best practice in this domain.
20 February 2018
One noteworthy proposal for enhanced classroom acoustics — for classrooms with a volume larger than 20,000 cubic feet — appears on Pages 13-14 of the document linked below:
Classroom Acoustics BCAC General 5 – IBC A117.1 Coordination 11-20-1027 File 17-229
While this proposal is largely a correlation proposal to harmonize IBC Chapter 12 concepts with concepts already present in IBC A117.1 it does set up a new section to lock in the correlation with ICC A117.1 Section 808. It has been on the agenda of breakout committees of International Code Council (ICC) ahead of its Group A Committee Action Hearings April 15 to 25, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio.
Standards Michigan encourages user-interest subject matter experts in the education industry to participate in the ICC Committee Action Hearings. Other inquiries may be directed to Ed Wirtshorek (ewirtschoreck@iccsafe.org). We keep the ICC suite of standards as a standing item on our weekly Open Door teleconferences that are open to the public.
Issue 17-229
Category: Architectural, Accessibility
Classroom Acoustics
Donegan Acoustics
With acoustic considerations a substantial contributor to the effectiveness of learning spaces — classrooms, lecture hall, performance arts and athletic venues, etc. — we follow action in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) suite of ANSI-accredited standards.
For example, building codes in the United States identify horizontal and vertical acoustic insulation between floors and between walls, respectively, as design considerations. Section 1206.2 of the International Building Code deal with horizontal and vertical wall sealant applications for “airborne sound” mitigation, for example. Fire protection and mass notification systems identified in NFPA 72 and UL 2572 depend upon alarms actually being heard by the occupants underscore the importance of acoustic design. When lively art spaces are also instructional spaces we seek to understand the standard of care for acoustic design of classroom spaces. Of particular interest to us in the ASA bibliography is the title linked below:
This is a fairly stable standard; though other sound related technologies we cover in other sound related technologies (ISO TC/43 Acoustics and IEC Electroacoustics TC 29). Last year’s update was required by ANSI and we had no comments to submit; absent queries from students, faculty and staff. It is wise to keep it on our radar, however, given the step-change in education communities owed to the pandemic.
On your own you may communicate with Caryn Mennigke at ASA: (631) 390-0215, asastds@acousticalsociety.org. The ASA uses ANSI Standards Action for issuing live public consultation notices.
Since acoustic technologies cut across many disciplines we maintain it on the standing agenda of our Construction, Lively Art and Nota Bene teleconferences. See our CALENDAR next scheduled meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [19-140]
Category: Academics, Architectural, #SmartCampus
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Kristen Murphy
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Room acoustic design, measurement, and simulation techniques to reduce hospital noises within patients’ environment | Mojtaba Navvab, University of Michigan
Acoustical/Performance Criteria, Design Requirements, and Guidelines for Schools International Code Council
Study on the Relationship Between Speech Intelligibility and Quality Estimates in University Classrooms
Arkadiy Prodeus, et al
Abstract: In this paper, correlation coefficients between the five objective estimates of speech quality, on the one hand, and the Speech Transmission Index as speech intelligibility measure, on the other hand, were estimated. This comparison was performed using binaural room impulse responses corresponded to different points of the three university auditoriums of different sizes. Speech quality was assessed using intrusive speech quality measures: Segmental Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Logarithmic Spectral Distortion, Frequency-Weighted Segmental Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Bark Spectral Distortion, and Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality. The formation of signals distorted by reverberation was performed by convolving of pure signals with binaural room impulse responses of the premises. A high level of correlation (0.6-0.99) of Bark Spectral Distortion estimates with estimates of the Speech Transmission Index for rooms of different sizes was revealed. Correlation of estimates (0.65-0.98) of Frequency-Weighted Segmental Signal-to-Noise ratio with Speech Transmission Index estimates was observed for medium and large rooms. Significant correlation (0.96-0.99) of Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality with Speech Transmission Index estimates was observed only for large audiences. At the same time, estimates of the Segmental Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Logarithmic Spectral Distortion turned out to be practically uncorrelated with Speech Transmission Index estimates for all studied premises.
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