12th November, 5.30pm, Dr Fiona Smyth

This lecture will explore the development of the Royal Festival Hall – and acoustics design in buildings more broadly – as it evolved between 1901 and 1951. It was not a straightforward, linear course of progress, but rather, an interweaving of formal and informal research tracks, supported by a distinctive intellectual configuration and propelled forward by figures from the worlds of architecture, engineering, music and science.