Showing posts with label pleasure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pleasure. Show all posts

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Architecture, music and pleasure

As always, I have the common problem; the problem I always get when I do manage to write things down in time - I end up with a disconnected phrase for which I can never remember the origin.
I think I saw it in a newspaper, but I do not remember it exactly, I do not remember which paper, and not who was credited for the quote - but it went as follows:
Good architecture is to the eye what music is to the ear.
- and I remembered it so precisely, because it was so obvious to me. Taste and pleasure can be discussed: some enjoy gothic cathedrals and organ music, while others appreciate electronic music and large glass facades, but in the end, the eye can delight in a beautiful building, just like the ear can find pleasure in a beautiful piece of music - or at least in particularly beautiful details of it. And in the end, it's the brain that feels good in both cases.
(Translated from Arkitektur, musik og behag, originally published January 11th, 2009)