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DANIEL LIBESKIND
Music and Architecture
In Bremen Philharmonic Hall,
Libeskind used lines from city
and related it with music and
that’s why we see a functional
relationship. What makes it
functional relationship is the
changes in forms, geometries,
materiality and acoustics.
In the extension to Victoria and
Albert Museum, we again see
structural
and
functional
relationship
through
“resonance”
which
was
metaphorically
used
as
decreasing in time.
__________________________
Libeskind, Daniel. ‘Chamber
Works’, pp. 28-45, in R. Ritter &
M.
Haberz
(ed.)
Music
Architecture, (Austria: HDA,
1997)
http://libeskind.com/work/chamber-works/
If we look at “City Edge” project,
he made the music involved into
architecture in the design
process. He was drawing while
he was listening music and did
not realize what he draws. That’s
why we see diagonal forms; he
used them where the melody
gets intense for instance. This
usage of music is both
metaphorical and structural
here.
BEYOND ARCHITECTURE | SUMMER 2015 | ISSUE 1