Welcome to Acoustically Arched!
Making Architecture Education More Accessible.
“He took architecture and transformed it into music, and now I want to do the reverse.”
Music and architecture have a lot of overlapping qualities. I started my research with Iannis Xenakis, a structural engineer and modernist composer who transformed architecture into music. Throughout the thesis process, this led me to creating a modern building in a baroque city using elements of classical music throughout the architectural details.
Acoustically Arched Blog
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Ted Mosby: Architect(ure Student?)
How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom that ran nine seasons from 2005 to 2014. The audience watches…
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You’re Not Getting Worse, You’re in the Learning Process
It’s not you. You’re not getting worse. You’re just experiencing Conscious Incompetence. Imagine you’re sitting in a crit seeing the beautiful…
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Why I Hate the Saying, “Architecture is Frozen Music”
“Music is liquid architecture, architecture is frozen music.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I’m sure you’ve heard it before. A…
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The Starchitect: An Architect’s Inspiration or Pointless Stereotype?
Imagine this, you’re ten years old, sitting in social studies. Your teacher tells you to open up your textbook…
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If Architecture Were a Spice, It Would Be Flour
To quote Louise Belcher, the sarcastic nine-year-old from Bob’s Burgers, “And then there’s Jessica. Bland, boring Jessica. If she…
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On the Outside Looking In
This was a project I did for an architectural photography elective I took in the fall of 2020, my…
Hi, I’m Sarah
Hi! I’m an architecture graduate currently based in Pennsylvania. I’ve wanted to be an architect since I was a kid and discovered Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water. Before then, I was drawing “floor plans” of my dream houses before I knew it was a career. That being said, I had no idea what I was in for when I went to school to finally study architecture. I remember showing up to campus a week early for band camp, only to have everyone I talk to after I say my major go, “Oh my god, how are you gonna do that?” I’m sorry…what?
Architecture school is hard for everyone, but is that by design? How can we make architecture education more accessible to the general public, therefore creating more diversity in the field? More perspectives create better designs for everyone.
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