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Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times, joins me for our first One-to-One interview of 2016. I wanted to talk with Kimmelman specifically about a piece he had published just at the end of last year, called \u201cDear Architects: Sound Matters\u201d. The piece considers how an architectural space\u2019s unique audio atmosphere helps create its overall personality, invariably affecting us as we experience it. Alongside Kimmelman\u2019s writing in the piece are looped videos of different spaces \u2013 the New York Times\u2019 office, a restaurant, the High Line, Penn Station, a penthouse \u2013 meant to be viewed while wearing headphones, to get to know that space\u2019s sonic portrait, of sorts.

Too often, says Kimmelman, architects don\u2019t think of sound as a material like they would concrete, glass or wood, when it can have a profound effect on the design\u2019s overall impact. In our interview, Kimmelman shares how the piece came to be, and how it fits into the Times\u2019 overall push into more multimedia journalism. We also discuss how Kimmelman\u2019s role as former chief art critic for the Times\xa0has influenced his architecture criticism, and how multimedia and VR may affect the discipline.