The architecture of sound

Can the solid world of architecture provide insights into the intangible world of music?

The crossing and dome of the Sagrada Familia basilica. Barcelona, Spain.

The poet Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once described architecture as ‘petrified music’. This has echoed down the years, albeit with a small modification to ‘architecture is frozen music’. The poet expressed the idea during a series of conversations with the younger writer Johann Ecker…