Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture | Music | Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University. The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of the relations between music and architecture via translations of architectural spaces into music to analytical case studies of architectural spaces for musical performance. The book includes illustrations, author biographies, and an index. For more information see the review.
Mikesch Muecke grew up playing in the forests and fields that surround the hamlet of Spork-Eichholz (now Detmold) in the princedom of Lippe in northwestern Germany before realizing that he wouldn't be happy to stay put. Not knowing what to do after graduating from the nearby Gymnasium in Lemgo, he took off with a friend to settle in Canada, and quickly found out that there was a gap between projection and reality. He continued to work and travel for a year through Mexico and the United States, met his wife at the University of Chicago, returned to Germany for five years, and then settled in the United States for good in 1985.
After studying architecture at the University of Florida and Princeton University, he started teaching at Iowa State University where he has been living, designing, and writing since 1995. In 2005 he started his own small publishing house, Culicidae Press, LLC, and has since then designed and published books, websites, and other media vehicles for a wide variety of clients.
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