The workshop Correspondances explores relationships between music and architecture through sensitive and graphic translation processes. By considering the musical score as an open creative tool, students investigate how drawing, diagrams, and writing can express time, rhythm, intensity, and emotion.
The work unfolds in two complementary phases. First, students produce an imaginary score based on listening to a musical piece, conceived as a subjective transcription of perceptions, mental images, and sensations. In the second phase, this score becomes the basis for the design of an imaginary architecture, where project quality depends on the relevance of the correspondences established between music and space.
The workshop emphasizes experimentation, interpretation, and invention over literal translation. It adopts a transdisciplinary approach in which architecture is understood as a language capable of resonating with other creative worlds.
Reza Azard is an architect and musician. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette, he co-founded the studio Projectiles in 2005, a multi-award-winning practice working primarily on cultural and heritage projects. He has been teaching architecture for over twenty years and pursues an improvised music practice with the collective Gingembre Electric.
John Cage, musical scores and notations
Gingembre Electric, improvised music session
