Building Sound, Los Angeles, 2004

In the spring of 2004, the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design held a conference called Architecture's Media, Messages & Modes to speculate on new modes of architectural scholarship.

We were invited to present a paper and exhibit selections from the previous year's broadcasts of Building Sound in the Perloff Gallery.

Although much of the conference was devoted to the question of how to turn the academic dissertation into something more fun (like the publications by Rem Koolhaas), our intention was to explore how communication networks and technologies of broadcast could be used for architecture. How might they transform both the product and the audience?

Our goal was to represent the space of radio broadcast in the space of the gallery - transmitter, antenna, radio, and waves were all present - while extending the space of the gallery beyond its walls, to engage the general public.

Transmitter and antenna courtesy of Steve Rowell.