arkitrave :: log

I am officially beginning the end.

With any luck, and quite a lot of hard work, I will be done with school this winter. My thesis is entitled “The Space Between: Silence and Light as Parallel Compositional Materials in Music and Architecture,” and will likely put most of you to sleep…I’m proposing that since we’ve discovered silence to be an element of presence rather than absence (John Cage), that we bring that idea into architecture somehow. This directly confronts Louis Kahn’s idea that silence is the nonexistent, light is present, and architecture exists between the two. Kahn is poetic, but I’d like to look at it a different way.

My thesis blog is at www.arkitrave.com/thesis, and will chronicle my work throughout the semester. I think best when I’m writing, so hopefully this will help me as I write a book and do a design project.

It’s also my first WordPress install, and so far I’m thrilled with it. Caution: I will modify the default template sometime soon, so it’s still not really up to my usual standards visually. This will change. Send me hate mail if it doesn’t.

I’ll try to stay off the thesis on this log and keep it relegated to the thesis log. Look for a new launch in the next couple days!