The Architectural Association Library

Music + Architecture : a selected bibliography

This bibliography contains a selected list of books and journal articles on Music + Architecture.
Books held in the Architectural Association Library will have the shelfmark noted.

Books (arranged alphabetically by author)

Aesthetics of total serialism: contemporary research from music to architecture / Markus Bandur
AA SHELFMARK: 72+78 BAN
Basel: Birkhauser, 2001 ISBN 3764364491
Architecture as a translation of music / Elizabeth Martin New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994
AA SHELFMARK: 72+78 PAM
(Pamphlet Architecture 16) ISBN 1568980124
Architecture of sound: designing places of assembly / Peter Lord, Duncan Templeton London:
AA SHELFMARK: 534:69 LOR
Architectural Press, 1986 ISBN 0851397263
Architettura & musica: sette cantieri per la musica dallIrcam di Parigi allAuditorium di Roma =
Architecture & music : seven sites for music from the Ircam in Paris to the Auditorium in Rome / Renzo
Piano Building Workshop Milan: Edizioni Lybra Immagine, 2002 ISBN 8882230546
AA SHELFMARK: 725.81.036:92PIA PIA

Arts and architecture: the Entenza years / Arts and Architecture

ISBN 0262071312

London MIT Press, 1990

AA SHELFMARK: 7+72.036 ART (STORE-OS)

Buildings for music: the architect, the musician and the listener from the seventeeth century to the present
day / Michael Forsyth Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 ISBN 0262060892
AA SHELFMARK: 725.81.034/6:699.844 FOR

La Cite de la Musique, Paris, La Villette / Christian de Portzamparc

ISBN 2903528764

Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 1986

Formalized music: thought and mathematics in music / Iannis Xenakis

ISBN 0253323789
AA SHELFMARK: 78 XEN

Frank Gehry: the city and music / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe with Frank Gehry London: Routledge, 2002
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92GEH GIL
ISBN 0415290082
Hans Scharoun: the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, Berlin / text by Hiroshi Sasaki / Global Architecture
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43):92SCH GLO (MLC)
21 Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1973
Jorn Utzon: the Sydney Opera House / Francoise Fromonot
ISBN 3927258725

Corte Madera, CA : Electa/Gingko, 1998

AA SHELFMARK: 725.82(944S):92UTZ

FRO

Mark Fisher: staged architecture / Eric Holding Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2000 ISBN 0471987069
AA SHELFMARK: 725.822.93:92FIS HOL

Minimalismos, un signo de los tiempos = Minimalisms, a sign of the times / Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2001 ISBN 848003260X
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036 MUS

Music architecture / edited by Roland Ritter and Michael Haberz Graz: Haus der Architektur, 1997
ISBN 3901174265

Rock sets: the astonishing art of rock concert design: the works of Fisher Park / Sutherland Lyall
AA SHELFMARK: 725.826:92FIS LYA
London: Thames and Hudson, 1992
Site of sound: of architecture and the ear / Brandon Labelle, Steve Roden Los Angeles, CA : Errant
Bodies Press in association with Smart Art Press, 1999 ISBN 0965557022
AA SHELFMARK: 78:72:75.023.22 LAB

Sonic process : a new geography of sounds / Christine van Assche

ISBN 8495951134

Barcelona, Actar, 2002

AA SHELFMARK: 78:7 ASS

Sound and the visual arts / Jean-Yves Bosseur Paris: DisVoir, 1993 ISBN 2906571261
AA SHELFMARK: 78+7 BOS

Soundscape of modernity: architectural acoustics and the culture of listening in America, 1900-1933 /
Emily Thompson Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2002 ISBN 0262201380
AA SHELFMARK: 699.844(73) THO

Soundspace: architecture for sound and vision / Peter Grueneisen Basel: Birkhauser, 2003
AA SHELFMARK: 725.82.036 GRU
ISBN 3764369752
Basel: Birkhauser, 2003 ISBN 3764369752
Space calculated in seconds: the Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgar Varese New Jersey: Princeton
AA SHELFMARK: 725.91.036(493B):92LEC TRE
University Press, 1996 ISBN 0691021376
What a wonderful world: music videos in architecture
Ruimtelijke Ordening Gemeente Groningen, 1990

Groningen: Groninger Museum / Dienst

Xenakis / Nouritza Matossian London: Kahn & Averill, 1986 ISBN 0900707828
AA SHELFMARK: 78:72 MAT

Journal Articles (arranged by year and month of publication)

2002
Presences of/Presences de Iannis Xenakis (Book Review) / article by Robert Coburn
in Leonardo vol.35 n.4 2002 / p.450-451
Musique [Music] / article by Marc Dubois and others (includes Music and architecture:
interrelationships, real or imagined by Yves Knockaert p.86-91)
in A Plus no.174 February/March 2002 / whole issue (text in French+English)

2001
Music and architecture: studio bau:ton composes space for writing and performing
in L.A. Architect May-June 2001 / p.28-[31]
Spazi sonori [Resounding spaces] / article by Alberto Pedrazzini and others (an issue dedicated to the
possible relationships between music and architecture)
in Parametro vol.31 no.234 May/June 2001 / p.18-87 (text in Italian, summaries in English,
French, German, Spanish)
Beyond the interdisciplinary: Iannis Xenakis 1922-2001 / article by Sven Sterken
in Archis no.2 2001 / p.81-85

2000
Architectonic harmonies: John de Cesare / article by Elaine Evans Dee (after embellishing numerous
New York skyscrapers with his sculptures in the 1920s and 1930s De Cesare devoted himself to translating
musical scores and statistical graphs into architectural projects)
in F M R (103) April-May 2000 / p.63-84
Popscene / article by Bob Fear (shifting aesthetic values of the music performance space)
in Architectural Design 70 (2) March 2000 / p.94-97

1999
Dancing to architecture / article by Carly Berwick (reviews the latest audio CD in the Architettura
series produced by scanning drawings and photographs of recent buildings and running the digitized
images through Metasynth software, which allows them to be converted to sound)
in Metropolis 18 (6) February-March 1999 / p.42

1998
Vaastu / article by H D Chhaya and others (includes Music and architecture by Ujjwal Arora)
in Architecture & Design vol.15 no.5 September /October 1998 / p.45-47
Architektur und kunst [Architecture and art] / article by J Christoph Burkle (includes Music and
architecture in the work of Daniel Libeskind the Jewish Museum [Judisches Museum] part of the Berlin
Museum, by Thomas Willemeit)
in Archithese vol.28 no.5 September/October 1998 / p.18-24 (text in German)
Architecture and music: special issue (Music in Frank Lloyd Wrights life and his buildings)
in Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly vol.9 no.2 Spring 1998 / p.3-23
Music of sound and light: Xenakiss polytopes / article by Maria Anna Harley
in Leonardo vol.31 no.1 1998 / p.55-65

1997
Space calculated in seconds: the Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese by Marc Treib [book
review] (pavilion designed by Le Corbusier with composer, architect I Xenakis)
in Journal of Architecture 2 (2) Summer 1997 / p.193-195
John Cage and the architecture of silence / article by Branden W Joseph (discussion of Cages contacts
with architect Paul Williams and the 1956 Williams-Cage house at Gatehill, in Stony Point, New York)
in October (81) Summer 1997 / pp.81-104

1996
Musical analogies in architecture / E Toby Morris (presents analogies between music and architecture)
in The Structurist no.35-36 (1995-1996) / p.66-74

1992
Wired for sound: a new system allows architects to electronically improve a concert halls acoustics /
article by Virginia Kent Dorris
in Architecture 81 (8) August 1992 / pp.85-90

1991
Musique et architecture [Music and architecture] / article by Frederic Lodeon, and others
in Monuments Historiques no.175 July/August 1991 / p.2-104 (text in French)
Polytope von Iannis Xenakis / article by Philipp Oswalt (compositions using light, sound and architecture
by Xenakis, associated with Le Corbusier)
in Arch Plus no.107 March 1991 / p.50-54 (text in German)

1989
Raume fur musik [Music rooms] / article by Manfred Sack
in Deutsche Bauzeitung vol.123 no.5 May 1989 / p.10-66 (text in German, English summaries)

1988
Jan Hoogstad: architecture and music / article by Joost Meuwissen and others
in Wiederhall Architectural Serial no.10 1988 / p.5-47

1986
Musik und Architektur [ Music and architecture] / article by Josef Wiedemann
in Detail no.5 September/October 1986 / p.413-418 (text in German)

1985
Bloch City / article by Peter Cook (architectural design based on Ernest Blochs Violin Concerto)
in Daidalos no.17 September 15 1985 / p.26-27 (text in German+English)

1983
A music lesson / article by Radoslav Zuk (outlines similarities between architecture and music)
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.36 no.3 Spring 1983 / p.2-6
Space system versus tone system: Jan Hoogstads theory of architecture and music / article by Rainer
Bullhorst
in Architect (The Hague) vol.14 no.4 April 1983 / p.68-69 (text in Dutch)

1981
Architecture and music / article by Tomas Maldonado, and others
in
Casabella vol.45 no.473 October 1981 / p.9-63

1969
Architecture for the arts of music, dance and drama
in Architectural Record 146 (5) November 1969 / p.147-164

1965
Musical prestressed concrete construction
in Japan Architect 40 April 1965 / p.44-46 (text in Japanese+English)

1957
Music and the architect / Max Lock
in Architectural Association Journal 73 December 1957 / p.136-139

Music and architecture in the environment of man / Howard Mitchell

in American Institute of Architects Journal 28 (2) June 1957 / p.139-143
Music and the architect
in Architects Journal 125 May 9 1957 / pp.696-699

Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian

December 2003