Thinking Architecture - Peter Zumthor
Chapter 7
Zumthor discussed the things that evoked emotion out of him. He used music to describe how a melody can be expressed through the instruments being played together and thus, evokes some kind of emotion. This is what we perceive as 'beautiful'.
I think that, yes, there is something beautiful when different instruments come together to create a piece of music that can move someone's emotion to different states. He then portrays this 'beauty' in the physical world around us. Just like a piece of music, our surroundings move us. Whether outside on busy square or in the woods on a cranberry bog.
He goes on to what I believe as the main function of being an architect. "..there is an intimate relationship between our emotions and the things around us. That thought is related to me as an architect." He means that, as an architect, it is his duty to bridge the gap between the people perceiving what is beautiful, and what is beautiful. In other words, just as a composer evokes an emotional sense of beauty, the architect must evokes beauty from his design.
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