An appreciation of the educational achievements of Bert Kinzey

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe the achievements of Bertram Kinzey in the field of acoustics within architectural education. Bert Kinzey’s ability to bridge engineering and architecture is of particular note to the personal experience of the author. With Bert’s personal efforts that the University of Florida was able to begin accepting students into the program who did not have a traditional undergraduate degree in architecture. As the first student to matriculate into the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Florida from this category the author owes a great deal of his personal career to Bert Kinzey. Bert lead the Environmental Technologies option at the School, which brought the art of music, the art of architecture and the engineering of applied technology into a combination which has enriched the profession(*). The study of concert hall architecture and acoustics has benefited greatly from Bert’s leadership where acoustical modeling and auralization can stand beside traditional visual techniques in the field of architectural modeling.