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What do building permits have to do with the South Australian Music Festival?
Not much actually! The connection I want to talk about was that drawn by Tim Horton and Gabriella Smart talking to their hosts from ABC Classic FM at the Music festival of South Australia tonight.
Tim, in particular, made some inspiring connections. He began by expressing his own passion for the similarities between baroque music and Architecture. He made analogies like:
- the similarities between the importance of a traditional foundation in classic Architecture for contemporary Architects and that of classical music for contemporary musicians;
- Just as interesting music can move us there is a capacity for an interesting space to move us;
- Just like music good quality contemporary architecture can question time and space; and
- Music is at its most basic level is a process and just like Architecture if you don’t follow that process you may not get the outcome you want.
Whilst I was interested in much of their conservation, this last point really pricked my attention. If I could make a loose connection between (issuing building permits through) building surveying, Architecture and Music it would be the importance of process.Like Tim’s passion for the baroque, our passion at BDC Building Design Compliance is for the process of measuring compliance. The process we have developed and that has evolved over time is fundamental for assisting our clients to evolve their Architectural design on a journey that includes the necessary building permits as an outcome. But just like music as a medium for communicating ideas can mean different things to different people, it’s in our communication of the implications of compliance to our clients for which we need to be most in tune.
Maybe we need to develop our own building permit theme song? Maybe some baroque harpsichord? Maybe not!
We encourage you to tune in to ABC Classic FM and look out for more gems from this year’s South Australian Music Festival.
Tags: Architecture, Building Permits, Building Regulations, music, process