Paper Presentations
The following 19 Finalists were chosen from 80 international entries to the Music in Architecture - Architecture in Music Symposium to deliver papers at the 2011 Music in Architecture – Architecture in Music Symposium and to be subsequently published in Center: Volume 18
“A Dodecahedral House of Blues: From Buckminster Fuller’s Jitterbug Transformation to an Elusive Bilaterally Symmetrical Harmonic Architecture”
David A. Becker, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida International University
“Music, Landscape Architecture and the Stuff of Landscapes”
Brenda J Brown
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of Manitoba
“Curious Mixtures”
David P. Brown
Associate Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
“New Rhythms: Intersections of Architecture and Music in the Abstract Films of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling”
Michael Chapman
Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle
“Acoustique Plastique: The Spatial "Music" of Emile-Jaques Dalcroze, Adolphe Appia, and Le Corbusier”
Joseph Clarke, M.Arch
PhD Candidate in Architecture, Yale University
“Terminology of Space Between Venetian School and New Music”
Yvonne Graefe
Assistant Professor, The Bauhaus-University Weimar
“Cage, Chance and Architecture: Distancing the Formalizing Agent”
Stephen John Harfield
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney
“Visualizing Beethoven's Architectonics of Distance”
Hedy Law
Assistant Professor of Music History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
“Rethinking Xenakis and the Role of Information in the Immediate Production of Architectural Affects”
Andrew Lucia
Director, Andrew Lucia Design and Research
LabStudio & Depatment of Architecture, Cornell University
Jenny Sabin
Labstudio & Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Principal, Jenny Sabin Studio
“Along Parallel Lines: Architectural and Musical Notation”
Jim Lutz
Lecturer, Co-Director-Master of Science Sustainable Design Track, School of Architecture, The University of Minnesota
“London Flat: Manhattan Studio of Jimi Hendrix”
Marie-Paule Macdonald
Associate Professor of Architecture, The University of Waterloo
“Bebop Performances”
Bennett Neiman
Professor of Architecture, Texas Tech University
“Walls of Sound: Harmonies of Modernism and Music in Richard Neutra’s Clark House”
Michael Ostwald
Dean and Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael Chapman
Senior Lecturer, The School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia
“Borromini and Benevoli: Architectural and Musical Designs in a Seventeenth-Century Roman Church”
David H. Smyth
Galante Professor of Music Theory and Haymon Professor of Music, Louisiana State University
Julia Smyth-Pinney
Fellow, American Academy in Rome
Associate Professor of Architecture, The University of Kentucky
“Louis Sullivan, J.S. Dwight, and Wagnerian Aesthetics in the Chicago Auditorium Building”
Stephen Thursby
Professor of Music, The University of South Carolina at Sumter
“Stuart Marshall and the Notation of Space”
Peter Tschirhart
PhD Candidate in Critical and Comparative Studies of Music, University of Virginia
“Architecture in Motion: A Model for Music Composition”
Jorge Variego
Assistant Professor of Music Theory/Woodwinds, Valley City State University, Fullbright Fellow
“Warps, Ribbons, Crumpled Surfaces and Superimposed Shapes: Surfing the Contours of Miles Davis's 'Lost Quintet'”
Michael Veal
Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yale University
“A Certain Uncertainty”
Yiu-Bun Chan
M.Arch., Intern Architect, Dip. M.P., Toronto, Canada
