Shape Computation Lab

Spatial Canons and Fugues

 


Title:

Spatial Canons and Fugues

Authors:

Athanassios Economou

Conference:

Proceedings of Greenwich 2000: Digital Creativity Symposium

Pages:

53-60

Publisher:

University of Greenwich

Publication date:

January 2000

Keywords:

Formal composition, Architecture and music, Counterpoint, Symmetry, Canons, Fugues, Shape studies

Abstract:

The foundations of a contrapuntal composition with shapes are considered. Rules in counterpoint in music composition are briefly presented and correlated with rules in formal composition with shapes in architectural design. In this context, spatial canons and fugues are defined as specific spatial studies generated by spatial relations and shape rules defined in terms of spatial relations. Some Java applets and architectural examples are given in the end.  

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