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SAMUEL A. BUDIONO & ASSOCIATES.

PROFILE.

Samuel A. Budiono, M.Arch, BSAS, IAI is Founder / President of SAMUEL A. BUDIONO & ASSOCIATES. He studied and worked in the United States before moving back to Indonesia to open his own office. He holds a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA. In addition, he received architectural training from the Europe Study Program in Paris, France & Berlin, Germany.

Samuel A. Budiono is an award-winning architect with the heart for music. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist & composer who has produced record albums. His musical talents give a lyrical touch to his architecture. Melodious forms, harmonizing with nature, and soulful rhythmic patterns are the characteristic of his creative process. His passion for music and architecture are inseparable, they fill each other to a perfect harmony.

PHILOSOPHY.

My favorite jazz pianist Thelonious Monk said: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. This is exactly the kind of thought that gets me started my design process in architecture. My philosophy: Composing in architecture is like designing in music.

Being an accomplished jazz pianist and composer that has produced record albums, my musical talents give a lyrical touch to my architecture. Melodious forms, harmonizing 1with nature, and soulful rhythmic patterns are the characteristic of my creative process. My passion for music and architecture are inseparable, they fill each other to a perfect harmony.

I enjoy designing dynamic and visually stimulating building as much as I enjoy improvising on my music. I see architecture as jazz music, it is about freedom to explore new ideas. My architecture is a joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit. It is about feeling. And that feeling is what we devote our lives to chasing, and to making possible.

My architecture, as an extension of modernist principles and aesthetic sensibility, is also an architecture of respect for nature, traditions, context and times. The characteristic attention to spatial relationships and appropriateness of form is as germane to a single family residence as it is to a much larger commercial building. The essence and quality of the works are not affected by scale.

My recent projects were inspired by my musical sensitivity to form a unique expression in my architecture. Music architecture becomes my trade mark of my approach to bind together about composing in music and designing in architecture. They work as symbiosis mutualistic to give spiritual meanings for both music and architecture. It is a way to see another dimension in life from the heart.

SAMUEL A. BUDIONO
a brief for SIA-GETZ
25 July 2008