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'''Artec Consultants Inc''', is an acoustics design and theater planning firm located in New York City. The company was founded by the late world renowned [[acoustician]] and theatre design consultant [[Russell Johnson|Frederick Russell Johnson]] in 1970. The firm is currently led by [[Tateo Nakajima]], Edward Arenius and Todd Brooks.
'''Artec Consultants Inc''', is an acoustics design and theater planning firm located in New York City. The company was founded by the late world renowned [[acoustician]] and theatre design consultant [[Russell Johnson|Frederick Russell Johnson]] in 1970. In 2013 Artec was integrated into the acoustic design and theatre consulting operations of design and engineering practice Arup. At the time of the integration Artec was led by [[Tateo Nakajima]], Edward Arenius and Todd Brooks, who are now senior employees of Arup, based in Arup's New York office.


Artec has done the acoustics design and theatre planning for over 140 projects worldwide including the [[Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay]], [[Salle Pleyel]] renovation in [[Paris, France]], the [[Mariinsky Theatre Second Stage|Mariinsky II Opera House]] Basic Design for [[Valery Gergiev]], [[Kravis Center for the Performing Arts]], [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]], [[New Jersey Performing Arts Center]], [[Pikes Peak Center]], the [[Montreal Symphony House]], [[Centre in the Square]], [[Chan Centre for the Performing Arts]] and acoustical upgrade of the [[Roy Thomson Hall]].<ref name="toronto1">{{cite web|url=http://www.toronto.com/article/698529--littler-a-sounder-structure-for-a-symphony |title=Littler: A sounder structure for a symphony - Music |publisher=Toronto.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref>
Artec has done the acoustics design and theatre planning for over 140 projects worldwide including the [[Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay]], [[Salle Pleyel]] renovation in [[Paris, France]], the [[Mariinsky Theatre Second Stage|Mariinsky II Opera House]] Basic Design for [[Valery Gergiev]], [[Kravis Center for the Performing Arts]], [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]], [[New Jersey Performing Arts Center]], [[Pikes Peak Center]], the [[Montreal Symphony House]], [[Centre in the Square]], [[Chan Centre for the Performing Arts]] and acoustical upgrade of the [[Roy Thomson Hall]].<ref name="toronto1">{{cite web|url=http://www.toronto.com/article/698529--littler-a-sounder-structure-for-a-symphony |title=Littler: A sounder structure for a symphony - Music |publisher=Toronto.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref>
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The firm has collaborated on many projects with some of great architects of the world including [[Cesar Pelli]], [[Jean Nouvel]], [[I.M. Pei]], [[Moshe Safdie]], [[Barton Myers]], [[Bing Thom]], [[Michael Wilford]], [[Eberhard Zeidler]], Fred Lebensold, [[James Stirling (architect)|Sir James Stirling]], [[Robert Venturi]], and [[Rafael Viñoly]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/11d5818a-db1c-11dc-9fdd-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Arts - American Composers Festival; Orange County, California |publisher=Ft.com |date=2008-02-14 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref>
The firm has collaborated on many projects with some of great architects of the world including [[Cesar Pelli]], [[Jean Nouvel]], [[I.M. Pei]], [[Moshe Safdie]], [[Barton Myers]], [[Bing Thom]], [[Michael Wilford]], [[Eberhard Zeidler]], Fred Lebensold, [[James Stirling (architect)|Sir James Stirling]], [[Robert Venturi]], and [[Rafael Viñoly]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/11d5818a-db1c-11dc-9fdd-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Arts - American Composers Festival; Orange County, California |publisher=Ft.com |date=2008-02-14 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref>


Since the early 90s the firm gained new partners and executives that helped give Artec an edge in their field. Since the death of the former founder in 2007, the company has been managed by the partners and associates.<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russelljohnsonlegacy.com/russell_johnson_biography.html |title=Russell Johnson Biography |publisher=Russelljohnsonlegacy.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9efbcdb6-70fd-11da-89d3-0000779e2340.html#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Arts - Acoustics first, then architecture |publisher=Ft.com |date=2005-12-20 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/9f03eea6-b198-11db-b901-0000779e2340,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F9f03eea6-b198-11db-b901-0000779e2340.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2Fsearch%3FqueryText%3DRussell%2BJohnson%26ftsearchType%3Dtype_news#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Media - Miami centre stage |publisher=Ft.com |date=2007-02-01 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a9c825e6-678c-11dc-9443-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Life & Arts - History and its recurring themes |publisher=Ft.com |date=2007-09-20 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7161/is_201107/ai_n57807481/pg_2/ |title=IN CELEBRATION OF C.B. FISK INC. FIFTY YEARS OF INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, AND EDUCATION - page 2 &#124; American Organist, The |publisher=Findarticles.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-23 |deadurl=yes}} {{Dead link|date=December 2011|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/13/entertainment/ca-artsnotes13.1 |title=Problems in doing volume business - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=2005-02-13 |accessdate=2011-10-23 |first=Mike |last=Boehm}}</ref>
Since the early 90s the firm gained new partners and executives that helped give Artec an edge in their field. Since the death of the former founder in 2007, the company was managed by the partners and associates, until integation with Arup in 2013. <ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russelljohnsonlegacy.com/russell_johnson_biography.html |title=Russell Johnson Biography |publisher=Russelljohnsonlegacy.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9efbcdb6-70fd-11da-89d3-0000779e2340.html#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Arts - Acoustics first, then architecture |publisher=Ft.com |date=2005-12-20 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/9f03eea6-b198-11db-b901-0000779e2340,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F9f03eea6-b198-11db-b901-0000779e2340.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2Fsearch%3FqueryText%3DRussell%2BJohnson%26ftsearchType%3Dtype_news#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Media - Miami centre stage |publisher=Ft.com |date=2007-02-01 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a9c825e6-678c-11dc-9443-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1ZFby5rCF |title=/ Life & Arts - History and its recurring themes |publisher=Ft.com |date=2007-09-20 |accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7161/is_201107/ai_n57807481/pg_2/ |title=IN CELEBRATION OF C.B. FISK INC. FIFTY YEARS OF INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, AND EDUCATION - page 2 &#124; American Organist, The |publisher=Findarticles.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-23 |deadurl=yes}} {{Dead link|date=December 2011|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/13/entertainment/ca-artsnotes13.1 |title=Problems in doing volume business - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=2005-02-13 |accessdate=2011-10-23 |first=Mike |last=Boehm}}</ref>


===Executives===
===Executives===

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The Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.
The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore.
The Sala São Paulo in Brazil.
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, USA .
The Ziff Ballet Opera House, Miami, Florida, USA.
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The fr:Maison Symphonique de Montréal.

Artec Consultants Inc, is an acoustics design and theater planning firm located in New York City. The company was founded by the late world renowned acoustician and theatre design consultant Frederick Russell Johnson in 1970. In 2013 Artec was integrated into the acoustic design and theatre consulting operations of design and engineering practice Arup. At the time of the integration Artec was led by Tateo Nakajima, Edward Arenius and Todd Brooks, who are now senior employees of Arup, based in Arup's New York office.

Artec has done the acoustics design and theatre planning for over 140 projects worldwide including the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Salle Pleyel renovation in Paris, France, the Mariinsky II Opera House Basic Design for Valery Gergiev, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Pikes Peak Center, the Montreal Symphony House, Centre in the Square, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and acoustical upgrade of the Roy Thomson Hall.[1]

The New York firm has been referred to as the field-leader in acoustic design[2] and Time Magazine called their design of the Esplanade complex in Singapore "one of the best anywhere".[3] The Artec design team has also worked with such architectural firms as Coop Himmelb(l)au, Foreign Office Architects, Herzog de Meuron, Andy Bromberg of AEDAS, and Zaha Hadid.[4] The firm has been mentioned for decades in the New York Times for their many concert hall designs. They also received attention in many publications that included the Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Wired Magazine, Variety, the Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

History

Artec was founded by Russell Johnson, a founder and principal consultant of the Theatre Consulting Division for Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Johnson spent over 20 years at the first large commercial acoustical consulting firm working as technical coordinator for concert hall and opera house design. In 1970 he decided to start his own firm, initially called 'Russell Johnson & Associates', yet later renamed Artec Consultants Incorporated.

His previous experience helped bring in new projects for the firm. Some of the early acclaimed facilities which Johnson worked on include the Orchestra Shell Renovation, Derngate Centre, Grand Theatre de Quebec, Centennial Concert Hall, Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater, Hamilton Place in Canada, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and Place des Arts.

Concert halls designed by Artec are known to have basic shapes and dimensions of beloved older halls like the Musikverein in Vienna, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Symphony Hall in Boston; all-of-which are shoebox-shaped and relatively small. The firm believed that acoustic quality is much better for these types of halls rather than larger ones which they believe are acoustical nightmares.

Over the years, Artec became one the most sought after acoustical consulting firms because of their unique movable and automatic technology that helped revolutionize the field. Their design enable through movable overhead canopies, retractable draperies and associated features, the adjustment of the acoustical environment to meet the needs of different kinds of music that could suit different performances or groups. The reflectors combined with a traditional soapbox shape design are consider trademarks of Artec.[12]

The firm has collaborated on many projects with some of great architects of the world including Cesar Pelli, Jean Nouvel, I.M. Pei, Moshe Safdie, Barton Myers, Bing Thom, Michael Wilford, Eberhard Zeidler, Fred Lebensold, Sir James Stirling, Robert Venturi, and Rafael Viñoly.[13]

Since the early 90s the firm gained new partners and executives that helped give Artec an edge in their field. Since the death of the former founder in 2007, the company was managed by the partners and associates, until integation with Arup in 2013. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

Executives

  • Tateo Nakajima (partner): A violinist and orchestra conductor. Joined Artec in 2001; he is one of its Principal Auditorium Designers. Previously, he established, directed and toured a private opera company based in Central Europe. He managed and conducted this handpicked company of 100+ artists and technical staff, selecting and working with stage directors, soloists, choreographers, and set designers from around the world.
  • Edward Arenius (partner): Initially worked as Project Architect at Sullivan Associates in Philadelphia. He joined Artec in 1990 as a drafter, and returned in 1995 as the Director of Design and Production. A Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Spring Garden College in Philadelphia. His award winning concept drawing for the Philadelphia City Hall Centennial architectural competition is now part of the permanent collection of The Atwater-Kent Museum in Philadelphia.
  • Todd Brooks (associate partner): A member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Audio Engineering Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with a minor in Music from the University of Washington in 1996. In 1998 and 1999 he received Masters of Science and Masters of Philosophy degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. He has been involved in teaching courses in physics and acoustics at both the University of Washington and Yale University.
  • G. Thomas Clark (associate partner): Joined Artec in 1995; he is its Principal Consultant in Sound & Communication Systems for over 16 years. He is also the founder of Acme Sound Partners, nominated four times for a Tony Award for excellence in Sound Design, winners of the 2010 & 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design (Ragtime & Baz Lurmann’s Production of La Bohéme).[20][21][22][23][24]

Public Attention

In 2009, as a guest speaker and representative of Artec, Nakajima was invited to the Hong Kong Design Centre for its Business of Design Week.[25] Artec also spoke at the designer event LIVE! Singapore 2011.[26]

In addition, Artec received a great deal of press recently for their new concert hall in Canada.[1][27][28][29][30][11][31][32][33][34][31][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]

La Maison symphonique de Montréal en photographie panoramique sous 360 degrés.
The Salle Pleyel (renovation), Paris, France.
The Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Centre, Birmingham, UK.
Knight Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Center in downtown Miami, FL.
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The Living Arts Centre
The former Mark Hellinger Theatre now called Times Square Church.
The Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.
The John C. Borden Auditorium at the Manhattan School of Music, Paris, France.

Projects

The following is a list of well known concert halls and projects Artec has collaborated on:

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