Paul Battaglia

Paul L. Battaglia, AIA, ASA, has been an Adjunct Professor at UB since 1985. He teaches a Compendium on Buildings in the Real Estate Program, and Junior Studio. Previously he taught Architectural Lighting and Acoustics for more than 30 years and a seminar on Aural Architecture.

Paul is a Buffalo native who received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been in full-time architectural practice since 1976 working on many of the more significant historic projects in Buffalo. His award-winning work includes authorship of the Downtown Buffalo Strategic Plan (1998) which informed to a large degree the Buffalo:2002 planning effort. His projects include the Frank Lloyd Wright Rowing Boathouse, a conjectural design of the Yahara Boathouse, as well as the Kleinhans Music Hall Master Plan, Erie County Courts Facilities, Barton House renovations, Market Arcade, Roycroft Inn guest house, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Greater Buffalo Savings Bank buildings. He currently serves on a Technical Standards Panel at Underwriters Laboratories.

Paul is President and Technical Director for STC Sound Control, a company that makes unique architectural acoustic products and has been granted four patents. He is author of “Achieving Acoustical Comfort in Restaurants” and presented a Special Session on Restaurant Acoustics at the 174^th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. His current research interests involve the emotional response and subjective impressions created by acoustical conditions in rooms, especially modal resonances.