Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">The different aspects of architectural design and music that act in support of one another have governed the inspiration and utilization of music in design education. This paper describes a Basic Design Studio assignment that involves visualizing music by organizing linear and planar units using basic design principles, with the aim of contributing to the transformation of conceptual thinking to physical formation by the integration of domain material taught in basic design courses. Dealing with music as a design tool, the study relates the perceptional and structural analogy between music and design and discusses its contribution to basic design achievements. The visual expression of the products and the manner in which it relates to appropriate basic design principles and elements qualities are evaluated in the context of organization, abstraction and uniqueness. The assignment given to the students to conduct this evaluation strengthened their ability to transform abstract thinking into physical representation, helped them to understand multidimensional thinking and how to engage in creative thinking, contributed to their architectural education and improved their study skills by giving them experience in coordinating design elements, principles and materials, all of which served to stimulate improvisation and reflection of emotions. From the results of this study, it is recommended that music, which has similar approaches and principles to those of architectural design, can be used as a tool in design and architectural education to support different phases of the creation and expression process.</p>
Highlights
Design and Music as Similar CompositionsPerception of the world involves a myriad of interconnecting sensory experiences (Maze, 2002)
The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of the design work on design education in terms of students’ ability to reflect the dominant elements of musical compositions through sensual, emotional and intuitively analyses based on their perceptual differences and explanandums onto visual compositions
It is conclusive that using music as a tool in design education studios, is productive in terms of awareness of primary or secondary elements, working with different layers in design process, perception of the environment through a different thinking system and synthesizing phases to comprise a whole by the analysis and abstraction of the layers, instruments, melody, tunes in the musical composition as can be seen in different studies
Summary
Design and Music as Similar CompositionsPerception of the world involves a myriad of interconnecting sensory experiences (Maze, 2002). Schopenhauer argued that all arts are inspired by music, while Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was quoted as saying “I call architecture frozen music”, and Iannis Xenakis expressed the great linkage between music and architecture (Tayyebi, 2013) Musicians utilize their talents in music to translate emotion into an audible form, while architects translate emotion into a visual form through the act of producing sketches or creating 3D models (Rao, 2014). The basic requirements of music are melody, rhythm and harmony, while the elements that make up the musical composition are sound, rhythm, tempo and rotundity (Okatan, 2012, Cuhadar, 2008). The literature on this subject features various studies on the similarity between design and musical composition and on the groupings concerning the elements. The architectural and musical works resemble each other as they contain mixtures of rhythm, unity, variety and harmony (Dewidar et al, 2008)
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