Rhythm in Architecture.-Architecture and Music.

Rhythm and Architecture

• No doubt, that the branches of arts are unified in

one connected chain. Each branch is affected by

the others, thus the branches of music and

Architecture

• Rhythm can be defined as:-a strong, regular repeated pattern of

movement or sound.-the measured flow of words and phrases in

verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables

Music and Architecture

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

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

-Musical texture refers to layers of sounds and rhythms produced by different instruments

-Architectural texture appears in different materials.Harmony is balance of sound or composition and balance of parts

together.Proportion is relationship between parts; in music it is distance

between notes or intervals.Dynamics is the quality of action in music or in a building’s facade

or mass.And often Architecture is referred to A frozen musical Composition.

Obtaining Ideas from Musical sheets

• Firstly, a music sheet can provide a great deal of inspiration to an aspiring artist.

• One can take the Music sheet and listen at the same time to the composition playing.

• As the composition plays, the artist lets his hands loose and makes random prints on the musical sheet.

• Each piece or stanza contains different expressions from dynamics to rhythm and texture.

Making prints on the sheet

Obtaining the final result

• Using the three steps of dynamics, rhythm and texture, this time combine the three diagrams into one diagram. Think of stanzas of a musical score

• The obtained final product can be used as a concept for Elevations, Sections or even a Plan.

Obtaining the desired concept

sketch

Examples of Such Concepts

• Architect: Daniel Libeskind

• Extension of the Berlin museum with the department Jewish ,Berlin, Germany.(1989-2002)

Thoughts of an Architect

• We will notice that the architect had a vision for the application of the philosophical effect of a certain musical symphony, which he transferred to actual lines and lead him to successful design.

• If we follow one string of architect‘s thoughts in putting his own ideas of museum‘s design, we shall find that the main idea was created due to Arnold Schoenberg‘s Moses & Aaron. An opera song.

• That opera is an unfinished symphony because of assassination of the German maestro during the Second World War.

The concept

• The identification of this architect is Jewish, so his religious attitudes made him more interested by this opera, which represents the great story of the two Hebrew prophets. Therefore, he put a zigzag line to imitate the formation of melodies and the sequence of raising waves in the unfinished opera. So, we determine an abstracted fact that, the music has mutual affection with the inside spirit of architecture and probably that, some users could be unable to understand that design-fact.

Berlin Museum

Art works inspired by Rhythm

Frank Gehry's architecture

Drums

Saxophone

Piano

REFEERNCES

• The music of architecture, master of architecture Marilyn Sheppard2011

• MUTUAL REALTION ROLE BETWEEN,MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE IN DESIGN by Khaled Mohamed Dewidar, AmrFarouk El-Gohary, Maged Nabeel Aly, HebatallahAly Salama.

• Experiencing Architecture by Steen EilerRasmussen.

• http://www.next.cc/journey/discovery/music-and-architecture

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