Essay on Music

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Music

Of Architecture
Architecture is a meeting place between the measurable and the
immeasurable. The art of design is not only rooted in the aesthetic form, but in
the soul of the work. In Phenomena and Idea, Stephen Holl once wrote, " The
thinking-making couple of architecture occurs in silence. Afterward, these
"thoughts" are communicated in the silence of phenomenal experiences.

We hear the "music" of architecture as we move through spaces while
arcs of sunlight beam white light and shadow." Undoubtedly, Holl adopted
this concept from its author, Louis I. Kahn. Unquestionably, I am referring to
"Silence and Light", a concept created and nurtured by Khan, and one
that dominated the later half of his work. Kahn had chosen the word Silence to
define the immeasurable or that which has not yet come to be. According to Khan,
the immeasurable is the force that propels the creative spirit toward the
measurable, to the Light. When the inspired has reached that which is, that
which known, he has reached the Light. Eloquently expressing the architect's
passion for design, Khan wrote "Inspiration is the of feeling at the
beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet. Silence, the
immeasurable, desire to be. Desire to express, the source of new need, meets

Light, the measurable, giver of all presence, by will, by law, the measure of
thing already made, at a threshold which is inspiration, the sanctuary of art,
the treasury of shadow." Khan believed that in order for ar

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