Tag: Einstein-Tower

• Proportions of Architecture and Music

  

  At least since the Renaissance, architects and musicians have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio, believing this proportion to be aesthetically the best. The golden ratio has fascinated western intellectuals and artists from Euclid and Pythagoras to Bela Bartok and Le Corbusier for more than 2.000 years. For the design-process of architects in…

  Fabian Dembski

  December 3, 2011

  Architecture, Lecture, Music, Projects, Teaching

  architecture, Bela Bartok, Charles Ives, Einstein-Tower, Erich Mendelsohn, Iannis Xenakis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Le Corbusier, lecturer, Metastasis, Modulor, music, National Changhua Living Art Center, Norihiko Dan, Philips pavilion, Prayer, proportions, Sheng-Hsueh Wu, Shih, Sun-Moon-Lake, Taiwan, Three Places in New England