For centuries, architects and 
composers have looked 
for tangible rules and laws 
that establish a relationship 
between buildings and music.

In antiquity,
learned people saw
the connection between
music and architecture
in mathematics.

Plato, Aristotle and others
believed that beauty
could be created only by arts
that apply numbers, measurements 
and proportions.
That is why numerical 
relationships which are felt 
to be harmonious in music 
are also reflected 
in the architecture of 
ancient Greece.
Intervals and beats were
interpreted in ground plans
and spatial proportions.

In the Doric temples
of Paestum dating from
the sixth century BCE,
for example, lines
and details correspond
to types of melody
and their structure.

500 years later, the
Roman theoretician Vitruvius 
even demanded that an 
architect should first of all 
understand the theory 
of music.