John Thought Garden

“Architecture describe as frozen music, landscape as thawed music”, this is my favorite sentence from the book . The author of the book--John Powell was using the eyes of artist to look our world. Landscape is described as a dynamic and flowing thing. It has more similarity with music. In other words, the way we feel landscape is quite similar with how we feel music. We could get different feeling, receive different experiences in different sections and time of a music, so does in landscape. It is a changeable process. In this book, John thought garden is a work of art. Garden as reflections of man’s attitude to the nature and to the world. So garden materials and overall garden form as elements of symbolic meaning given by people, especially …show more content…
To understand this article, we should know Xenakis first. This great Greek man was a composer, music theorist and architecture-engineer. So he has the authority of the relationship between the music and architecture. He described the process of composing music as analogues to navigating a “cosmic vessel sailing in the space of sound, across sonic constellations and galaxy” and explained human intelligence in the language of astrophysics. As an architect, he thought that the evolution of humanity had reached a cosmic stage requiring new forms of dwellings, intend to bring the population in contrast with the vast spaces of the sky and stars. At the same time, as a music composer, he marked the beginning of this new “planetary and cosmic era” in human development by inventing a new form of multimedia art that he called the “polytope”. Polytope is a concept that a big space consisting of lots of small elements. It is a spatial complexity that may be articulated by sound and light in movement. Xenakis’s theory shaping the new form of art with light and sound. This thinking provides an idea for the building form in the music venue which I am aiming to