Music and Architecture

1. Rhythm in Architecture.
-Architecture and Music.

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Making prints on the sheet

7. 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.

8. Obtaining the desired concept
sketch

9. Examples of Such Concepts
• Architect: Daniel Libeskind
• Extension of the Berlin museum with the department
Jewish ,Berlin, Germany.(1989-2002)

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Berlin Museum

13. Art works inspired by Rhythm

15. Frank Gehry's architecture
Drums

16. Saxophone
Piano

17. REFEERNCES
• The music of architecture, master of
architecture Marilyn Sheppard2011
• MUTUAL REALTION ROLE
BETWEEN,MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE IN
DESIGN by Khaled Mohamed Dewidar, Amr
Farouk El-Gohary, Maged Nabeel Aly, Hebatallah
Aly Salama.
• Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler
Rasmussen.
• http://www.next.cc/journey/discovery/music-and-architecture

18. Thank you