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March 28, 2006 -- Hearways, a collaboration
between
Karen Van Lengen, Ben Rubin and Joel Sanders, explores
the relationship between sound and vision in the context of domestic
architecture. Their work will be the subject of a Dean’s
Forum Lecture, also titled “Hearways,” at the University
of Virginia School of Architecture on Friday,
April 7.
Van Lengen, dean of the School of Architecture, is currently
investigating the role of sound in the creation and delineation
of space in her private architecture practice. Her collaboration
with Ben Rubin, a sound designer, and architect Joel Sanders
on the Hearways installation project with the Vitra Museum in
Germany will be included in a 2006 traveling exhibition.
Other
recent projects by Van Lengen include residential and institutional
work, including a design consultant role at the Supreme Court.
Van Lengen’s work has been widely published
and exhibited in the United States and abroad. In 1990, she won
the prestigious America Memorial Library Competition in Berlin,
Germany. She represented the United States as a juror in the
Spreebogen Competition for the new government center in Berlin.
Van Lengen has taught at City College of New York; Columbia
University; Cornell University; Notre Dame in Rome; Parsons School
of Design, where she was Chair of Architecture from 1995-99;
University of Pennsylvania; University of Texas; Yale University;
and in Germany.
Van Lengen received her bachelor’s in psychology from Vassar
College. She received a Master of Architecture from Columbia
University, where she won the American Association of University
Women Fellowship.
Sanders opened his firm Joel Sanders Architect
in 1987. The firm is committed to exploring the role architecture
plays in the formation of social life and creating spatial conditions
that encourage alternative forms of human interaction in space.
He received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University
School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in art history
from Columbia College. Since 1996 he has been the director of
the graduate program at Parsons School of Design.
Rubin, a sound design and multimedia consultant, often collaborates
with architects. He teaches sound design at New York University
and designs museum installations and produces digital artworks.
One project, a collaboration with Bell Labs statistician Mark
Hansen, was shown last year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
and will go on view later this year in a first-floor gallery
at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
For more information contact Derry Wade at (434) 982-2921 or derry@virginia.edu. | 
