J. Christopher Jaffe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

J. Christopher Jaffe is recognized for leadership in architectural-acoustic design.

[edit] Work

Jaffe has consulted on over 250 performance halls, including:

Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio
Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.
Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Sala Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City.

He maintains his position as principal and chairman of JH Acoustics Inc., which he founded in 1958 as Stagecraft Corporation. The light-weight demountable shells designed by him were the first engineered to use selective transmission of energy into the stage house and stage-house coupling to enhance on-stage and audience-area acoustics. He likewise was among the first to use electroacoustic enhancement systems and is the inventor of the Electronic Reflected-Energy System (ERES).

Jaffe has taught acoustics at the Juilliard School, City University of New York, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is founder of the master’s program in architectural acoustics and remains a Visiting Distinguished Professor.