Making theaters, concert halls, and schools safe places to breathe isn’t an insurmountable challenge, but it does mean overcoming a history of terrible habits, widespread neglect, scant standards, and zero transparency. JDavidsonNYC writes
Photo-Illustration: by Curbed; Photo Getty Images Architecture, declared Le Corbusier, is the “play of masses brought together in light.” That statement, made when photography and the art of building were defining each other’s frontiers, has wormed its way into our collective consciousness. We look at architecture and judge it by what we see.
Making theaters, concert halls, and schools safe places to breathe isn’t an insurmountable challenge, but it does mean overcoming a history of terrible habits, widespread neglect, scant standards, and zero transparency. “Our clients are really paying attention now, and they’re finding some things that nobody ever thought about,” says Charles Copeland, a longtime engineer who has made something of a specialty of modernizing creaky theaters and concert halls.
Standards are low and meeting them is effectively optional. There is no inspection system for air quality as there is for, say, elevator cables and food safety in restaurants. Building managers can announce all the measures they’re taking without quantifying their effects. “If it’s just meeting code, that’s not sufficient, but no one has set firm ventilation targets,” says the Harvard healthy-buildings expert Joseph Allen.
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