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famous architects listen to...what kind of music?

Gyo

ahaha

we all listen to music when we do our shits..
just wonder what those famous architects listen~
any idea?

 
Nov 27, 07 7:02 pm
minimalicious

future systems amanda levete,

"mostly classical, I love händel and mozart.
jazz too."

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/futuresystems.html


find mo here sucka
http://www.designboom.com/interviews.html

Nov 27, 07 7:05 pm  · 
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Gyo

looks like most of them like classical

Nov 27, 07 7:44 pm  · 
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minimalicious

"I really like justin timberlakes new album"
ross lovegrove lost my respect with that one, not that i'm anybody...

Nov 27, 07 8:43 pm  · 
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erjonsn

Maya Lin:

-The Blow (I recommend the track "Hey Boy")
-Leslie Feist.
-The Garden State Soundtrack

Nov 27, 07 9:28 pm  · 
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outed

no idea - when i first went into michael hays' office (umpteen years ago), he had g-love and special sauce thumping the walls. (and they were just a 'local' band at that point).

steven holl likes bela bartok (or used to).

karim rashid always seems to have some kind of house club mix going in his place.

anyone else?

Nov 27, 07 9:56 pm  · 
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gold spot

Why care?

Nov 27, 07 10:01 pm  · 
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Gyo

cuz we are architecture over dosed
everything about architecture...architects
WE WANNA KNOW!!

Nov 27, 07 11:03 pm  · 
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brian buchalski

ugh...we don't listen to music...rather we curate sound environments and if you don't understand that then i suggest you exercise extreme caution upon entering...

and as of this moment, i'm listening to patrick watson's close to paradise to be followed up by a moodgadget compilation titled expanse at low levels

Nov 28, 07 8:12 am  · 
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clerestory strip™

one i know of likes classical, but i can't mention their name cause i might get sued-anyway, i like to listen to new age (Robert Rich's Gaudi in particular) when i do my design.

Nov 28, 07 8:52 am  · 
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vado retro

puddles you ain't famous!

Nov 28, 07 9:27 am  · 
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vado retro

that said, i am streaming vermont public radio's classical station, which just played some john dowland.

Nov 28, 07 9:34 am  · 
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mdler

a lot of PJ Harvery and REM at TWBTA

Nov 28, 07 12:46 pm  · 
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phuyaké

Archi-tectonics (Winka Dubbeldam) has links to DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, and Warp Records on their site... couldn't confirm if they're listening to squarepusher during client meetings tho

Nov 28, 07 12:52 pm  · 
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THREADS

ASK MTHEORY....he may have the answer.

Nov 29, 07 12:40 pm  · 
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holz.box

REM? really? awful.

now squarepusher i could do.

Nov 29, 07 12:53 pm  · 
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le bossman

since you all want to know what kind of musac i listen to, i thought i'd share this with you which i am enjoying right now

http://www.kexp.org/streamarchive/popup.asp?starttime=39419&bitrate=96&mediatype=1


Dec 5, 07 8:31 pm  · 
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b3tadine[sutures]

i listen to Philip Glass.

Dec 6, 07 9:18 am  · 
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Ms Beary

squarepusher = brilliant. I'm told to turn it off when I play it out loud at work though...

Dec 6, 07 9:22 am  · 
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holz.box, i'm flabberghasted. i don't know if i can live in a world where REM can be considered less than brilliant!

Dec 6, 07 9:31 am  · 
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liberty bell

I thought "curating the sound environment" was what you did when deciding what should be playing when a chick shows up at your apartment.

The closest thing to a star architect I worked with played house music - this was in the early 90s - and toyed with having porn videos playing silently in the background, but knew that this wouldn't fly in a mixed-gender office.

Dec 6, 07 9:45 am  · 
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threeewizmen

mars volta?

Dec 6, 07 9:47 am  · 
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aw c'mon, lb. weren't the porn videos mixed gender?

Dec 6, 07 9:52 am  · 
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Usually its jazz via yahoo music or xm radio, sometimes its just things I have on my laptop - its mellow stuff usually.

I save the funky music for later in the day

Dec 6, 07 10:05 am  · 
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farwest1

Steven Holl used to play really difficult contemporary classical music (Schonberg, Webern, that kind of thing) very early in the morning.

Dec 6, 07 10:45 am  · 
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liberty bell

Yes, they were, Steven, but this *was* pre-Moulin Rouge/Lady Marmalade.

In my office it's a lot of Cake.

Dec 6, 07 10:51 am  · 
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binary

aux 88

Dec 6, 07 10:56 am  · 
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McMath

I've always wondered the same thing. Personally, I love minimalism, especially Glass and Reich (I'm listing to "Music for 18 Musicians" now). Although, I'm not even a practising architct, never mind a famus architect, so I don't really have an answerfor you.

Dec 7, 07 4:43 am  · 
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aspect

famous architect do not need to listen period.

Dec 7, 07 1:40 pm  · 
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