At a time when technology has unleashed
architects to design the most extravagant tangible forms, could questioning the concept of form in an abstract medium like
music, which lies in the territory of idea, and incorporating its ephemeral qualities into the spatial realm lead to a reconsideration
of architectural form?
Isben Önen's insightful book offers a new view of
the relationship between the histories of Western music and architecture. It demonstrates both the profound overlaps and divergences
between the two fields, presenting a wide-ranging understanding of the development of each field. This is cultural history
at its best: richly informative and deeply engaging. (Christopher Long)
Throughout
history there has been a constant fascination of architects with music. Isben Önen, an architect and a musician himself, sets
out explore the formal correspondence between his two fields of expertise, from Vitruvius to Leon Battista Alberti; from Gabrieli
through the enlightenment, to Alban Berg and all the way to Renzo Piano’s and Luigi Nono’s contemporary Prometeo. This uncommonly
vast and profound piece of scholarship is of interest not only to musicians and architects but also the non-specialized public.
(Liane Lefaivre)AutoreninformationIsben Önen, Architekt
Architect and jazz journalist. Studied architecture at Gazi University (B.Arch), METU (M.Arch) and holds a PhD from
the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. His interest in transdisciplinary pickpocketing is legitimized through a research
settled at the crossroads of architecture and music, humanities and social sciences.Bestellen 
