Music and architecture are constructions that make use of space, volume, movement, form, structures, motifs, proportions, articulations, colours, harmony and tempo. What could be more natural than to imagine a project that brings them together? And above all, how can we reflect the individual voices of the personalities or the buildings? How do you express the inexpressible, the song of architecture?

Composers and musicians Jérôme Fohrer, Francesco Rees and Erwin Siffer, accompanied by graphic designer and photographer Adrien Berthet, tackle this difficult question, giving us sound portraits of great architects, accompanied by their words, drawings, photographs and plans.

From Zaha Hadid to Dorte Mandrup, via Odile Decq and Walter Gropius, the piano/double bass/drums trio will endeavour to transcribe their feelings about their architectural creations into musical pieces in the manner of the Impressionists, less through symbolic application and mathematics than through melodies derived from sinuous, composite scales for Oscar Niemeyer’s curves, harder, staccato rhythms to represent the metal, glass and angles of Mies Van Der Rohe, unexpected cadences and minimalism for Le Corbusier’s cells, and wide intervals and chords full of space for Dorte Mandrup’s ‘The Whale’.