The designer, the musician. A similar way to approach creativity, a similar way to live their professions

Abstract

How many times, in their creative moments, architects are inspired by a particular music? How many times, in their creative moments, musicians are inspired by the place or the room where they are playing? As musician and architect, I wonder if my mindset is different while practicing the one or the other profession. Unexpectedly, I found out many similarities between a musician and a designer, in the importance of personality, technique, listening skill, influences of environment and society, until the verification that both architecture and music are mainly imposed to other people, without choice.