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DANIEL LIBESKIND
Music and Architecture
Libeskind combines music and
architecture in his works by
using different types of relations
such as metaphorical, functional
and structural etc. If we look at
Jewish Museum, there are both
metaphorical and structural
relationship between music and
architecture.
He inspired by the incomplete
opera piece “Moses and Aaron”.
It was actually created as three
parts by Schoenberg, however,
they did not complete the third
part. Since Libeskind is also a
musician, he got involved into
the
opera
through
his
architecture. There are axial
voids (corridors) and he creates
acoustics in the space. In this
way, visitors can hear their own
steps. If they go there again,
they will remember their
experience and it makes the
relationship
metaphorical,
structural and also functional. It
is metaphorical because it is
done as the third part of an
opera; it is structural because of
the corridors and it is functional
because of the acoustics.
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Libeskind, Daniel. ‘Chamber
Works’, pp. 28-45, in R. Ritter &
M.
Haberz
(ed.)
Music
Architecture, (Austria: HDA,
1997)
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BEYOND ARCHITECTURE | SUMMER 2015 | ISSUE 1