Music and Architecture
Throughout my life, music has been a major source of inspiration and rejuvenation. Music and the visual arts together provide raw material, ideas and concepts, for my work as an architect with my firm SPRINGBOARD Design. The work, like our design (above) for the expansion of the National Aviary, is always about ideas. I get my best ideas from music.
What is the relationship between music and architecture? That is the central theme I explore with students who enroll in 'Under the Influence: Architecture + Art' the course that I teach at Carnegie Mellon University.
I just discovered the Dake Wells Architecture Blog. There Andrew Wells describes a VHI Classic Album documentary about Def Leppard. Ok, not my favorite band, but I get the point. "In watching the members of Def Leppard talk about the creative process," Wells writes, "I'm struck by the similarities in our practice. The band members talk about the collaborative process and how they don't think of the band as having a 'front man.' Instead, they have five front men, each contributing their own unique talents to the collective whole."
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