Where psychology & architecture meet sound and the harmonic human proportions
The whole world strives for beauty! We are all made to look for it, to find it, to create it. It gives joy to our souls and meaning to our existence. From the woman on the street choosing the best colors to enhance her complexion, to the man who wears his socks to match the fragile nature of his inner child – the gentle nature of his very existence. Beauty is an aspect of all of us and weather we know it, or not, we shape all ourexperiences searching for beauty, to make things better, to find and re-create this almost divine principle, which we all have in us. And even if the criteria for beauty may be different from one person to another, one thing is common in all of us in regard to beauty – when it is present, it brings out the colors in life ! It hums in harmony and nourishes a joy, which enlivens us all. That is what beauty in a space can do for us too. It can ignite us, our spark, our joy for living. It can remind us of the flow of the breath and how it can shape our environment to fit the ideal space for our body, for our inspiration.
One, who carves a model in any of the forms of art must carry this model in its entirety within themselves; Therefore, one who will make a pyramid must have the entirety of it in his soul – it must vibrate their flesh, so that when they build it, the eye sees the architectural form in light, the ear puts the music of the seven spheres into its song. Indeed, through the windows of the pyramid one sees the universe in its stellar totality – there are the dimensions of geometry, there is the song of the spheres that Pythagoras spoke of millennia later. Vaklush Tolev
I first recognized this movement of the elements when I was in Egypt. I felt it in the air itself. I sensed it in the pyramids, the perfect sound, the perfect structure, the ambience of space. I realized that the spaces we build and live in can be crafted to harmoniously support our wellbeing and creativity. Spatial Psychology, the way I have defined it, describes what spaces must become, psychologically, to be harmonious and supportive of the human dimensionality – physical, emotional, mental and even spiritual. It defines how to create the right light and shape the right movement of the air itself, so that the space we fill with our physicality can support the beauty that our soul seeks.
In my work and life, I love to create bridges! The merging between music, the sound in one’s voice and psychology is a place where psychology and music meet. As our voice has the key to our emotional life and to our physical world and body, it also brings the seen and unseen together and helps us to explore it. Music, sound and psychology can co-create a bond with architecture too. This involves the sound that exists through the movement of the elements as we find in the ancient art of Feng Shui. All of this is still to come, to be crafted and developed and it is the human harmony from within, from within our inner world, that will craft these spaces. The harmony exists in ancient buildings and in temples. It is there and for us to discover and revive.
We need light and eyes, we need ear and heart, mind and measurability to put art into our being, into our Golden Ratio. Le Corbusier, one of the brilliant architects of our time, discovered a “tool” for linear measurements similar to the musical letter that facilitates and harmonizes building and constructing a “modular” – a range of measures emanating from the human body. Vaklush Tolev
The human body contains this harmony. It is within us all and it is up to us to weave this golden ration within and into our lives. And when this begins to happen, we cannot help but to sing in praise and in gratitude for all of creation, for life and for beauty. Yes, this muse – beauty, our inspiration!
