Spatial polyphony: Virtual Architecture Generated from the Music of J.S. Bach
Peter Holdt Christensen, Marc Aurel Schnabel · Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia · 2008
This paper documents the process and outcomes of a digital design project with the aim of translating music into architecture. Parametric software has been used to generate 48 virtual forms from the preludes and fugues of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier (bwv 846-869), by Johann Sebastian Bach. The paper discusses historical connections between architecture and music in the Western tradition and in relation to contemporary thought and practice.