Beethoven is the household name in our popular culture associated with creative and artistic genius in music. I have always tried to learn more about him but never got a good chunk of time to spend on it. And fortunately tonight I stumbled upon the movie Copying Beethoven (2006) and got a quick intro into his life. He is portrayed as the typical blend of a master genius that is eccentric, egoistic, imbalance, lonely, spiritual, but on top of those all is brilliant.
In that movie, I enjoy the images of 18th century Europe and the Baroque Vienna. I am also inspired by Beethoven’s intense devotion in writing music. Something that I can really related with right now as I am drawn more and more into the passion to ‘write’ architecture. A composer’s life is similar to an architect. His main preoccupation is to imagine and plan the orchestra. He is able to conceptualize the simultaneous flows of many instruments and at the same time also able deploy a specific effect of an instrument. Architecture is like an orchestra. It is the convergence of techniques, history, and effects. That’s what makes it very exciting to me.
Thinking about architecture occupies all my waking hours. Everything that I see and experience can be projected back into this passion inside me. I feel like it is something that I will do for the rest of life no matter what my profession is and will be.