Music. Ahhh. One of my first loves. It actually runs in the family. Growing up, we were expected to master one or more instrument. Be it piano, violin, harp, guitar, harmonica or whatever it is that produces music. We had to regularly practice and read the solfeggio after. I remembering growing up playing the piano and my mom would be in the garden and when I hit the wrong notes, she would yell “WRONG NOTE!” or “AGAIN!” or “That’s my girl!” when I play the piece right. As I grew up, the less time I had to engage in music, except when I listen to the radio, MTV, YouTube and the likes. But as I continued to pursue my career, little did I know that music would still play a big role in creating good architecture. Good thing that in the university that I stay in now, they offer a subject in the curriculum named “Arts in Architecture”. It is actually a study on the aesthetic and creative foundation of architecture through integration of architecture and fine arts particularly literature, poetry, music and dance. It aims to poetically explore creative possibilities in engaging to the origin of the said disciplines and their architectonic translations for the students to develop an understanding of the aesthetic and creative foundation in architecture and to provide opportunities to explore creative possibilities in engaging to the rudiments of literature, poetry, music, sculpture and dance and discover the different architectural morphology through the appreciation and study of the different forms of arts and to promote poetic attitude in creating architecture and to develop competence in creating architectural works with true artistic meaning.

In the age of K-Pop or J-Pop or whatever they call it nowadays, music has somewhat lost its meaning to some of the younger generations. That is why I had to reintroduce them to one of the worlds revolutionary bands during the ’60s in the music realm, The Beatles. Who wouldn’t know John, Paul, George and Ringo?

What they had to do was to dig into the lyrics of the songs they were assigned to. They have to study its rhythm, the notes and its melody. After that, they have to think of a way to come up with an architectural sculpture that is close to their understanding of the song assigned to them.

So they have come up with the following models.

Voila! Music in Architecture- The Beatles Collection!