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    INSTRUMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
    (2017) Kilian, Joshua Kyle; Ambrose, Michael; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The objective of this thesis is to study the audible impacts of architecture, and explore how music and sound can enhance learning. Modern culture is known to be ocular-centric, relying heavily on vision. Aesthetically, visual beauty often overshadows aural beauty. Pragmatically, visual cues often influence our behavior, understanding, and navigation more than auditory cues. Due to this, the implications of sound often go unnoticed. Even undesirable sound, or noise, is tolerated on a daily basis. This becomes an issue when noise starts to influence users psychologically, physiologically, behaviorally, and even cognitively. Architecture has become more visually-dominant in the modern era, so architecture itself contributes to this visual distraction. How can architecture address these visual biases and promote aural stimulation? How can architecture manipulate sound so it is celebrated rather than tolerated? This thesis exploits sound to increase aural spatial awareness, and as a byproduct, enhances learning
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    Perceptual Resonance | Spatial Typologies as an Interpretation of Music
    (2017) BARKMAN, ERIN; Abrams, Michael; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This thesis seeks to evoke a sense of place, identity and memory through a connection with music to capture the essence of place. Music can act as the link between architecture and people, to allow people to experience place in a more intimate way. By engaging all the senses, there can be a connection through our bodies to the building around us. Through the process of abstraction, we can link the audible world with the visual world, allowing music to resonate in architecture.
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    Architecture: Music, City, and Culture
    (2009) Riad, Mahmoud M.; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Many scholars have discussed the relationship between architecture and music. Design methodologies have been created to highlight this intersection, attempting to attain the sublime. While architecture theorists have used western music as a foundation, this thesis aims to investigate this relationship in a non-western setting. Music would be used as a cultural identifier, to unlock "hidden dimensions" shared in language, music, and architecture. The case study site is historic Cairo, between the Fatamid Walls. For the past two centuries, Cairo has abandoned its cultural heritage and embarked on a process of westernization. Those who seek to hold onto the city's identity are abusing traditional motifs in a manner that seems cliché and somewhat absurd. The thesis calls for a deeper understanding and evolution of Cairo's heritage, using concepts of the Arabic Melodic modes, Maqams, to create a place for listening, al Masmaa'.
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    HARBOR AS VENUE: BALTIMORE'S WATERFRONT MUSIC HALL AND MIXED-USE COMMUNITY
    (2004-05-18) Mansperger, Nicolas Frederic; Bovill, Carl; Architecture
    As United States port cities evolve from heavy industry to service based economies, brownfield sites become opportunities to secure our cities' vitality. This thesis studies architecture's relationship to the essence of the urban waterfront through connectivity, imageability, genius loci, and the pageantry of place. The site is located in Baltimore's Fells Point, at the former location of the Allied Chemical chromium facility. This 27 acre environmentally capped peninsula mediates between the fine historic grain of Fells Point and the contemporary 30+ story Inner Harbor East. How can the inherent disparate nature of the harbor be infused with connections to bring people together? The prominence of the site demands a study of the harbor's accessibility to maximize this amenity's connectivity back to the city. The urban program studies the implications of a mixed-use community on a prominent waterfront site. As a regional performance anchor, the site becomes home to a new music hall. A public portion of the site serves locals and tourists alike, connecting the Inner Harbor with Fells Point via a waterfront promenade. The pageantry of place, not unlike Garnier's Opera House, is studied both at the macro and micro scale, from the city's procession in and around the waterfront to the local scale of the music hall. Being inherently introverted, as seen in Sydney, how can a waterfront hall look at the harbor as venue? Is it appropriate to visually and physically link the site to its present and past industrial and natural essence?