Music.
Music is within our absolute souls.
For many of us, it drives us. It is the passion that leads many men to their
greatest achievements. It is also a part of architecture. It is a part of what
the architect desires, hears deep within.
Music reflects the surfaces that
the architect decides to use to convey the music that is inside of him. It is
intertwined with it all.
But, all of this is not a steadfast
rule – none of them are. Even as the rules are becoming realized and are being
made, we are setting out to break them from day to day. The rule that music is
what it is to architecture will change overnight, and the next decision will be
arbitrary.
Even with things being arbitrary
now, however, everything is still interconnected. As we progress forward and
make new rules and find new things, we are still making connections everyday to
the things of the past. Everything goes back to the classical. Every time.
But this is only really the story
in the west. We are really the only ones that have such an intense desire to
bend and break the rules – we are the only ones who want to make everything
that has been before, not be again. In the east, there is absolutely no push to
bend or break any rules. In the east, there are really no rules at all. They
have decided to stick with what they know works. And it has continued to work.
As time goes on, the world is
growing. Europeans are moving west, and America is found and founded. And the
whole reason for coming west was to become independent. However, up until then,
the basic rule for design that had not been broken yet was that we were still
looking at the classical and using it for the “modern.”
This presented it’s own set of
issues. We couldn’t follow the classical style directly without maintaining the
European ways. So we, as Americans, had to figure out how much of the classical
style we could get away with using, and how much we had to add to it and
modernize it in order for it to become our own.
With the American Revolution comes
some more revolutions, all of which make us question the architecture and
design that we have known.
Revolution changes everything, even
the music. And this is where the reverberations bring us back around in a full
circle. The reverberations of design have been going on and on for many, many
years now. The music of then has a great influence on the design of now. The
designs of then inspire the music of the now. Everywhere we go, it is all
intertwined, the reverberations are still happening, and we are forever
learning from what has happened, and making the best of it for the learning of
tomorrow.
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