Listening to Architectural Space

Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural History in the Faculty of Architecture and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. A graduate of Cambridge and of the Courtauld Institute of Art, she taught at University College London, Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute, before returning to Cambridge in 1992, where she has established the Centre for Acoustic and Musical Experiments in Renaissance Architecture (CAMERA).

She has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Smith College, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the Villa I Tatti and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.

Her principal research interests are the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean. Her latest book, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (with Laura Moretti), was published by Yale University Press in 2009.

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