Add to ORKGIt was first stated 200 years ago, and reiterated numerous times since, that architecture is frozen music . While this romantic analogy sufficiently satisfies many in the realm of architecture, it actually is a sad way of defining an idea so inherently lively. Goethe\u27s quote conjures up the notion of a world that is silent, one in which we can see the notes but never hear the music because we are trapped by stasis in time. Like the note admired on a piece of paper, architecture in this world is static regardless of the changing conditions around it. What if the frozen part could be removed from this concept, and the element of time could play an active role in the built environment? An architecture that can exist in a sense of time is...