TON-RAUM TU Berlin

The Sound Room at the Technical University of Berlin is the product of an art-in-architecture competition organised by the TU in 1981, from which Bernhard Leitner emerged as one of the prize winners. The sound room was implanted in a passageway in the stairwell of the old main TU building. With its concept of constructing accessible spaces using sound as an artistic-sculptural material, the TU’s Ton-Raum is now one of the ‘pilot’ projects which, since the early 1980s, have brought the emergence of new artistic forms between the genres, such as sound installation or sound sculpture, to the public’s attention, especially in Berlin.