Music and Architecture

FUE - Future University in Egypt Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Department of Architectural Engineering

ARC 421 History & Theories of Architecture 5 Spring 2019 Instructor: Dr. Yasser Mahgoub Music and Architecture

Music and Architecture • The philosopher Goethe says that architecture is frozen music.

‫• يقول الفنان التشكيلي صالح طاهر‪:‬‬ ‫• "إنَّ العمارة موسيقى في المكان والموسيقى عمارة في‬ ‫الزمن"‬

Music and Architecture • Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti said that the “same characteristics that please the eye also please the ear. “

Music and Architecture • Musical terms such as rhythm, texture, harmony, proportion, dynamics, and articulation refer both to architecture and to music.

Music and Architecture • Rhythm in music is patterns of sounds in relation to a beat; repetition of elements - openings, shapes, structural bays- establish regular or irregular rhythm in architecture.

Music and Architecture • Musical texture refers to layers of sounds and rhythms produced by different instruments.

Architectural texture appears in different materials.

Music and Architecture • Harmony is balance of sound or composition and balance of parts together.

Music and Architecture • Proportion is relationship between parts; in music it is distance between notes or intervals.

Music and Architecture • Dynamics is the quality of action in music or in a building’s facade or mass.

Music and Architecture Music

Architecture

Rhythm

patterns of sounds in relation to a beat

repetition of elements openings, shapes, structural bays- establish regular or irregular rhythm

Texture

layers of sounds and rhythms produced by different instruments

appears in different materials

Harmony

balance of sound or composition

balance of parts together

Proportion

distance between notes or intervals

relationship between parts

Dynamics

quality of action

facade or mass

Examples

Thank You.