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