things I HAVE to read
February 15, 2009
A few titles of books I think need to read (partly), or at least look at.
Resonance: Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture - Mikesch W. Muecke, Miriam S. Zach
Pamphlet Architecture 16: Architecture as a Translation of Music – Martin, Elizabeth
Poetics of Architecture: Theory of Design – Antoniades, Anthony C
Semiotic discipline in architectural design – Turrin, M
Music Notation and Terminology - Karl Wilson Gehrkens
Light-zone(s): as Concept and Tool – Madsen, Merete
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Although reading can certainly enrich your research, you should not delay engaging your research topic experimentally as well.
To do this, you can begin by formulating some hypotheses regarding possible answers to your research question(s) – e.g. “the emotional effects of music (and/or poetry) can be achieved to some extent also by means of architectural devices such as … [whatever you want to focus on - spatial form, texture, color light, etc.]”
and also proposing some means of testing the hypotheses.
André
… by the way, another possibly interesting bit of reading:
http://catalinapanoiu.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/sounds-of-space/
AC
Karel suggested to wait on choosing a specific device until I’ve done some more research on each of those devices. Though I can already start formulating hypotheses and methods of testing. I’ll try to do that tomorrow.
That blogs seems interesting indeed.