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- Title
The Architectures of Iannis Xenakis.
- Authors
Sikiaridi, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), composer, architect, engineer and media artist, designed together with Le Corbusier the Philips-pavilion for the 1958 Brussels World Fair. This pavilion is an early example of ("hybrid")combined media and architectural space as it contained a Poème Èlectronique, an electronic synthesis of visual projections (conceived by Le Corbusier ) and acoustic events (composed by Varèse). The pavilion's architecture with its hyperbolic-paraboloid shells had a dynamic expression. Xenakis continued this research into complex material architectural forms. He also worked on the complex ephemeral architectures of light and sound events. What is specific to Xenakis is the way he used forms in different fields and transferred them from one field to another, from engineering to music, from music to architecture and visual events. This experience of working simultaneously and applying the same (mental) structures in different fields opened him the way (partly supported by the universal computer instrument) for the practice of transferring mathematical-scientific structures into artistic production. In this context Xenakis pleads for the development of a "General Morphology", a research concerned with the understanding of form and its generation. Xenakis's 'material' architectural work is to be seen in continuity with his architectures of music and light.
- Subjects
MUSIC; XENAKIS, Iannis, 1922-2001; ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURAL design; ARTS
- Publication
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 2003, Vol 1, Issue 3, p201
- ISSN
1477-965X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/tear.1.3.201/1