The acoustics of a room need to be designed to meet the purpose of the room.

In the recording room the acoustics may be designed "enhance" the sound of the
recording and in control room the acoustics need to very controlled and predictable
so the engineer, producer, and musicians can trust what they are hearing in the
monitors. In a church or a theater the sound needs to project into the room.
A control room needs to have balanced acoustics, meaning a proper balanced
absorption the frequencies and reflections are well controlled and diffused.
If all the walls are covered with foam the room will sound boomy, and the mixes will
have too much high frequencies and little bass out in the real world.
The other extreme would be a room with too much bass absorption, causing the
mixes to sound muddy outside of the studio.
A control room should have only a little less reverb time than the average living
room. Do not over do it. A completely dead room is not the real world and it will
make it very difficult to get a good mix.
A few tips about control room design.
Symmetry; layout the room so that the left and right sides of the room are
symmetrical. This helps with your stereo balance.
Use short racks (28" or 70cm) to minimize reflections in the mix position.
A recording room for voice (spoken) also needs to be designed to have flat
acoustic properties with very short reverb times.
For music recording longer reverb times, with a slight increase in bass reverb time is
considered by many people to be desirable.
The feeling is longer bass reverb time helps to give music a little more power. Too
much though and the recordings will become boomy.