language, if Le Corbusier hadn't
claimed that title for architec-
ture - possibly even more narrow-
ly, for residence. Frank Gehry's
going to be 90 this week, and it
feels as if music is exerting a
claim upon that linkage between
mechanism and being, if only be-
cause of his identification with
buildings of concert performance.
A remarkable collaboration between
musicians and linguists, perform-
ers and builders, Berlin's Boulez
Saal is Gehry's most dynamically
adaptable concert hall, and here
is where the celebration will be.
One does like to think it could
be anywhere, but architecture is
the machine for being in place.
American schoolboys will recall
the duality celebrated in Henry
Adams at Chartres, of the Virgin
and the Dynamo. This is building.
The subject will still be music.
Daniel Barenboim
& Martha Argerich
Boulezsaal, Berlin
St Paul's School library
Druries House links
Cameron Dallas
x Fabien Kruszelnicki
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