Intersection of architecture and music as Gesamtkunstwerk in Iannis Xenakis' selected works

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This thesis focuses on the two selected works of the architect/engineer/composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001); Philips Pavilion (1956-58) and Le Diatope (1978). It places these works at the intersection of architecture and music by showing how they combine spatial, musical and visual performances. Accordingly, it discusses them as exceptional twentieth-century examples of Gesamtkunstwerk; “total work of art.”

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Art and architecture,, Music and architecture., Architecture.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22401

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Z. Özcan, “Intersection of architecture and music as Gesamtkunstwerk in Iannis Xenakis’ selected works,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2013.