#Architect’s Secret To Timeless Designs! #architecture #music #shorts

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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Ian Peterman explains how architects create timeless designs by assembling talented collaborators like musicians in a symphony. He describes architecture as frozen music, a concept that evokes feeling and memory in the people who experience it.

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I like helping younger firms, and because I've also worked with many people in real life, part of what I'd love to do is bring together the right people and let them do their thing. It's more like you're bringing together all the best musicians to create this symphony. The symphony itself is built around your project, and it's designed to get the very best music. Someone said it at some point, architecture is frozen music, and I think that's really true. I think it has It has the same capabilities of invoking a lot of the feelings that you can get from music and has that sort of connection to memory.