المجلة العراقية لهندسة العمارة والتخطيط (Aug 2017)
The Effect of Music on The International Architectural Design Process Output
Abstract
Music has always had it's generative role to build societies as one of modern culture basis . Arab Muslims had their own share of music industry as Al Farabi divided melodies to : delightful , imaginary & emotional , As Ibn Khadoon assured that civilizations fall as music falls eventually , some declared that music can transfer a still painting to a musical , motionable or aesthetic view of expression . As music's role is increasing in fields specially architecture , thus , the main problem comes about musical architectural relationship , revealing the special case of somposing architectural texture musically , & the research problem exposed lack of knowledge about it & affection of music on architecture with outputs by subjecting architecture to music to promote outputs of design . This research aims to clarify that relationship & apply it on international buildings as the reseach concluded that sensual & moral indications can motivate designer's imagination to design his outlines , aiming architectural use of music to produce intellectual joy ( objective ) reaching visible joy ( subjective ) by comprehensing an indicated concept based on previous experiments , as conclusions included that slow rhythm music leads to curved line and organic shapes & to straight lines & angles when listening to fast rhythem music . Key words : music , music & architecture , composing & simulation .