Music, Architecture and Mathematics in Traditional Iranian Architecture

Abstract

Architecture usually excites the audience through its special physique or structure. Using the arts such as music or utilizing digital mathematics science related to architecture could lead to the creation of special work of art. The aim of this article was to find a relationship between music and architecture and mathematics and the analysis of the parameters of this relationship in traditional Iranian architecture. To answer these questions, this article followed a qualitative research method along with comparative analysis and logical reasoning in theoretical studies and effective parameters. Accordingly, the present study is aimed to investigate the relationships and commonalities between music and architecture and mathematics and the various theoretical approaches in this regard. Then, there is a part studying the similarities between music and architecture and mathematics in traditional Iranian architecture. The results revealed that there is a deep, conceptual, and fundamental connection between music and traditional Iranian architecture the appearance of which is obvious in analysis and investigation of different parameters such as rhythm, high and low, hierarchy, numbers, mathematics, geometry, and color indicating compatibility of two or manifold presence of concept, physics and mathematics. Thus, the connection between parameters of “music-architecture-mathematics” relationship in traditional Iranian architecture could be divided to two main approaches. In the conceptual-physical approach, elements such as color, rhythm, music, and high and low are important in traditional architecture. In the concept of mathematical-physical approach, elements such as numbers and symbolism.