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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Thawing Frozen Music
Goethe is usually credited with using the phrase “I call architecture frozen music” in a letter published in 1836. (Eckermann 1836) A similar phrase “Architecture is like frozen music” seems to have been used earlier in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art. (Schelling 1802-03) … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Frozen Music
Tagged Architecture, expo 58, Frozen Music, le corbusier
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Quasicrystals and Aperiodic Tiling
In 2011 Dan Shechtman was alone awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals. Shechtman found in 1982 that atoms in a crystal could exhibit 5 fold symmetry packed in a pattern that did not repeat itself; analogous … Continue reading
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