Acoustics glossary
The glossary provided by acoustician and PhD Anders Christian Gade represents the background of terms and concepts throughout the Kvadrat Acoustics communication.
Anders Christian Gade, MSc, PhD
Anders is an internationally recognized researcher, teacher and consultant in the field of architectural acoustics. He has been involved in the planning and design of numerous cultural buildings in Europe and the far East and has been responsible designer or client advisor for most of the major concert hall projects and theatres built in Denmark since year 2000.
Born in a family of musicians, Anders has always had a special interest in the coupling between music and acoustics, and as a result of his ground breaking research on the room acoustic needs of musicians, he invented a measurement method for description of the acoustic conditions for musicians on orchestra stages, which is now adopted as the international ISO standard (3382).
Anders is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has written numerous papers in professional journals and in conference proceedings and has contributed to various books on architectural acoustics.
He received the "Rockwool Price" in 1986 for his research on concert hall acoustics and is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Kvadrat was established in Denmark in 1968 and has deep roots in Scandinavia’s world-famous design tradition.