Architecture
is Frozen Music,
the 2002 award winning design by Alexander Gorlin, AIA for
the First International Piano Design Competition, sponsored
by DCOTA and Maximiliaan's House of Grand Pianos
The Award ceremony of the Winner of the First International
Piano Design Competition, sponsored by DCOTA and Maximiliaan's
House of Grand Pianos
During
a fabulous opening at DCOTA, the award was handed out
to Alexander Gorlin, AIA for his
winning
design "Architecture is Frozen Music" of
the First International Piano Design Competition.
The
event was attended by more than 600 guests, prominent
designers and press from all over the country.
Gorlin,
who owns a thriving architect company (www.gorlinarchitects.com)
was particularly pleased with this award, since he,
in his own words considers that "if you can
design a piano, you can design about anything",
referring to the complex nature and structure of
the piano as
an object of design.
The
scale model, submitted
to the jury by Alexander
Gorlin, based upon which construction of "Architecture
is Frozen Music was started.
Gorlin
chose to base his design on the Dutch design
movement of the Neo-plasticists Mondriaan, Rietveld
and further influenced by LeCorbusier. In the
words of jurymember
Michael Graves, "to my knowledge none of
the designer of the moverment The Style ever
designed
a piano and
I am particularly happy that one of the competitors
chose to base his design on this important movement"
Gorlin
pointed out that his design is not completely
true to the Dutch movement. Thus, Gorlin added,
I have taken tradition as a basic premis to
work upon,
and
modernized it to contemporary taste".
Gorlin is particularly known to have developed
an unsual
language in archtiecture
that holds a harmonious balance between traditional
and modern design.
One
sheet with four views, also submitted by Alexander Gorlin
to the jury
of the International Piano
Design Competition, based on which construction of "Architecture
is Frozen Music" was completed.
For
the occassion, Maximiliaan Rutten commissioned
a special piece of music to the most celebrated
contemporary composer from the Ukraine,
Anna Bogolyubova. She
carefully took the design of the piano
in consideration when
composing
her "Five Sketches" (appr. 15 minutes),
five short pieces with titles such as "Broadway
Boogie",
referring to the famous pianting by Piet Mondriaan. |
