Music and Architecture

Music and Architecture...

Two exciting worlds collide here - Music & Architecture... My Masters' thesis work (1998-99) at the School of Architecture and Planning ( SAP), Chennai. An attempt to trace the link between music and architecture... an attempt to give shape to music. The research was experimented in the design of a music Gurukulam.. The built forms drew their inspiration from Vanraj Bhatia's "Earth" from the elements series, based on the raga 'desh'...from the overall campus planning(macro) to the elemental detailings(micro) , the design gives physical shape to "earth"...

Here is the original hand written synopsis i had submitted to the thesis committee at SAP requesting an approval for my topic...

My thesis guide Prof. Ranee Vedamuthu, who was initially very skeptical on my ability to pulloff the topic, later became a big support. The biggest support however was my director Prof. Md Harris.  I also remember my Carnatic music guru Reverend Chinniah who taught me the grammer and basics of Indian classical music,. I used to visit his home every Saturday for Music classes! 

Music gurukulam - my final design project