Research Catalog

Title

Music and Architecture : Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations / by Iannis Xenakis ; compilation, translation, and commentary by Sharon Kanach.

Author

Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001

Publication

Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kanach, Sharon E.

Description

xx, 338 pages : illustrations (some color); 19 cm.

Summary

"This major work fills an important gap by presenting for the first time all of the projects, realizations and texts related to architecture by this trained engineer, one of Le Corbusier's closest assistants for 12 years. The material is presented and commented by Sharon Kanach who shared the rediscovery of this mostly-unpublished material with the composer as his last ambitious project. The material of Music and Architecture is presented under four main headings: The Le Corbusier Year, Xenakis as Independent Architect, Writings on Architecture, The Polytopes. Three major annexes will include: an up to date "Commented Bibliography of Writings By and On Xenakis" by Makis Solomos, a "Critical Index of Xenakis's Architecture" by Sven Sterken, plus a "Comparative Chronology of Xenakis's Life and Work" by Sharon Kanach. The latter's commentary throughout the book strives to bridge the reciprocal influences between music and architecture hidden or apparent in Xenakis œuvre. Music and Architecture represents the first volume in a series of critical editions of Xenakis's writings, a project currently under taken by Sharon Kanach, Makis Solomos, and Benoît Gibson, three leading Xenakis scholars, in collaboration with the Xenakis family and the Bibliothéque nationale de France in Paris (depository of the Xenakis Archives). At least five subsequent volumes will be published in the ew Pendragon Xenakis Series, dedicated to Xenakis's own writings as well as to related scholarly research by others. Our two previous Xenakis volumes - Arts/Sciences: Alloys (1985) and the Pendragon Revised Edition of his seminal Formalized Music (1992) -will be moved into this series." --

Series Statement

• The Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 1
• Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001. Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 1.

Uniform Title

Musique de l'architecture. English

Alternative Title

Musique de l'architecture.

Subject

• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
• Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001
• 1900-1999
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century
• Architecture, Modern
• Architecture > 20e siècle
• Musik
• Architektur
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century
• Music and architecture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translation from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[Table of Contents] -- Foreword / David J. Lieberman -- Introduction / Sharon Kanach -- Acknowledgments / Sharon Kanach -- Preface / Iannis Xenakis -- PART ONE: THE LE CORBUSIER YEARS -- 1.01: Xenakis in Le Corbusier's Studio 1947-59 / Sharon Kanach -- 1.02: Xenakis and the Modulor / Sharon Kanach -- 1.03: Le Corbusier's Modulor / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.04: Marseille, Housing Project in the "Radiant City" / Sharon Kanach -- 1.05: Housing Project in Rezé-lès-Nantes / Sharon Kanach -- 1.06: The Chandigarh Project / Sharon Kanach -- 1.07: Establishing a Climatic Grid / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.08: Program for studies of optimal climatic conditions and the architectural means of correction / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.09: Problem of breathing on the premises / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.10: Letter to Le Corbusier from Xenakis -- 1.11: Undulating Glass Panes / Sharon Kanach -- 1.12: Le Corbusier's patent application for "Undulating Glass Panes" and Xenakis' accompanying "Technical Note" -- 1.13: Metastaseis and the Modulor / Iannix Xenakis -- 1.14: Xenakis' Convent / Sharon Kanach -- 1.15: Le Corbusier constructs a Dominican monastery at La Tourette / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.16: Guidelines for establishing contracts for La Tourette / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.17: The Monastery of La Tourette: a work of Le Corbusier / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.18: Letter to Father de Couesnongle from Xenakis -- 1.19: The Monastery of La Tourette / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.20: La Tourette Preface / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.21: Youth and Cultural Center - Firminy / Sharon Kanach -- 1.22: Project for an Olympic Stadium - Bagdad / Sharon Kanach -- 1.23: Correspondence between Le Corbusier and Xenakis -- 1.24: Provisional Project Presentation Olympic Stadium / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.25: The Philips Pavilion / Sharon Kanach -- 1.26: Letter to Hermann Scherchen from Xenakis (excerpt) -- 1.27: Le Corbusier's Electronic Poem / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.28: The Philips Pavilion at the Dawn of a New Architecture / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.29: Xenakis on Le Corbusier / Sharon Kanach -- 1.30: Concerning Le Corbusier, 1965 / Iannis Xenakis -- 1.31: On Le Corbusier (IX), 1984 -- PART TWO: WRITINGS ON ARCHITECTURE -- 2.01: Xenakis as Author / Sharon Kanach -- 2.02: Beautiful or Ugly / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.03: Notes towards an "Electronic Gesture" / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.04: On Vitruvius / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.05: The Cosmic City / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.06: Topoi / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.07: Concerning Japanese architecture / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.08: Places and Sources of Auditions and Spectacles / Iannis Xenakis -- 2.09: Architecture and listening to music / Iannis Xenakis -- PART THREE: INDEPENDENT ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS -- 3.01: Xenakis as Independent Architect / Sharon Kanach -- 3.02: Project for an Auditorium for Hermann Scherchen / Sharon Kanach -- 3.03: Summer home for François-Bernard Mâche / Sharon Kanach -- 3.04: Arts Center Projects / Sharon Kanach -- 3.05: Arts Center in Chaux-de-Fonds: Project / Iannis Xenakis -- 3.06: Project for an Arts Center in Shiraz-Persepolis / Iannis Xenakis -- 3.07: Renovation and construction in Corsica, the Schneider Bergerie / Sharon Kanach -- 3.08: Cité de la Musique, Paris: Competition / Sharon Kanach -- 3.09: Cité de la Musique: Project / Iannis Xenakis -- 3.10: Project for the home of R. and K. Reynolds / Sharon Kanach -- 3.11: Home away from home: Corsica / Sharon Kanach -- PART FOUR: THE POLYTOPES -- 4.01: Xenakis' Polytopes / Sharon Kanach -- 4.02: Polytopes / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.03: The Polytope de Montréal / Sharon Kanach -- 4.04: Proposition for the French Pavilion at the Montreal World's Fair / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.05: The Polytope de Montréal: an approximate scenario of light and visual art / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.06: The Polytope de Montréal: Commentary / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.07: The Polytope de Persépolis / Sharon Kanach -- 4.08: The Polytope de Persépolis: Scenario / Sharon Kanach -- 4.09: The Polytope de Persépolis: Program Notes / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.10: Open letter by Xenakis to Le Monde -- 4.11: The Polytope de Cluny / Sharon Kanach -- 4.12: The Polytope de Mycénes / Sharon Kanach -- 4.13: The Polytope de Mycénes: Presentation / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.14: The Polytope de Mycénes: General Program / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.15: The Polytope de Mycénes: Credits / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.16: Xenakis' Diatope / Sharon Kanach -- 4.17: "World Polytope" / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.18: The "Beaubourg Polytope:" Preliminary Studies / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.19: The Diatope: a gesture of sound and light / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.20: The Diatope: Music to be seen / Iannis Xenakis -- 4.21: Texts accompanying the Diatope -- APPENCIES: -- A: The UPIC / Sharon Kanach -- B: Synoptic Table of Xenakis' Life and Works / Sharon Kanach -- C: Catalogue raisonné of Xenakis' Architecural Projects / Sven Sterken -- D: Selected Bibliography / Makis Solomos -- Index of Proper Names

ISBN

• 9781576471074
• 1576471071

LCCN

2008013982

OCLC

• 217263432
• SCSB-10356641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library