Author : A. Read
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137368683
If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the performance spaces interacted with actors and spectators according to their type.
Author : Alistair Fair
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781848222151
This book documents--and celebrates--Britain's contemporary theater architecture. It is about the conception, design, and delivery of spaces for drama between 2008 and 2018, a period of economic recession and financial austerity that has nonetheless seen a significant number of well-received theater-building projects. Intended not only for theater enthusiasts but also for individuals and organizations that may be contemplating a capital project of their own, Play On provides detailed "contemporary histories" of ten recent projects. It includes new theaters, like Liverpool's prize-winning Everyman Theatre and Cast in Doncaster, as well as major refurbishment and restoration projects such as the National Theatre in London and the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Architects whose work is discussed include Haworth Tompkins, Aedas Arts Team, Bennetts Associates, Richard Murphy Architects, and Page\Park. An extended introductory section sets the case studies in their historical and contemporary contexts and draws out key themes, including sustainability, accessibility, and the need for theaters to be efficient yet welcoming public spaces.
Author : Maxwell Silverman
Publisher : New York : New York Public Library
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Performing Arts
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Author : Dorita Hannah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1135053774
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’. ‘Event’ was of immense significance to modernism’s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism – and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.
Author : Ned Allan Bowman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
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Author : Cathy Turner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137317140
Dramaturgy and Architecture approaches modern and postmodern theatre's contribution to the way we think about the buildings and spaces we inhabit. It discusses in detail ways in which theatre and performance have critiqued and intervened in everyday spaces, modelled our dreams or fears and made proposals for the future.
Author : Iain Mackintosh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134969112
Understanding the theatre space on both the practical and theoretical level is becoming increasingly important to people working in drama, in whatever capacity. Theatre architecture is one of the most vital ingredients of the theatrical experience and one of the least discussed or understood. In Architecture, Actor and Audience Mackintosh explores the contribution the design of a theatre can make to the theatrical experience, and examines the failings of many modern theatres which despite vigorous defence from the architectural establishment remain unpopular with both audiences and theatre people. A fascinating and provocative book.
Author : Alistair Fair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317056914
During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new approaches to staging and performance, while theatre was often thought to have a reforming role in society. Innovation was accompanied by the revival and reinterpretation of older ideas. The contributors to this volume explore these ideas in a variety of contexts, from detailed discussions of key architects’ work (including Denys Lasdun, Peter Moro, Cedric Price and Heinrich Tessenow) to broader surveys of theatre in West Germany and Japan. Other contributions examine the Malmö Stadsteater, ’ideal’ theatres in post-war North America, ’found space’ in 1960s New York, and Postmodernity in 1980s East Germany. Together these essays shed new light on this complex building type and also contribute to the wider architectural history of the twentieth century.
Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801480942
Explores the cultural, social, and poltical aspects of theatrical architecture, from the threatres of ancient Greece of the present.
Author : David Staples
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351052160
Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, consultants and theatre practitioners, and illustrated with full-colour photographs and comparative plans and sections. A further 20 theatres that opened from 2009 to 2020 are concisely reviewed and illustrated. An excellent resource for students of theatre planning, theatre architecture and architectural design, Modern Theatres 1950 – 2020 discusses the role of performing arts buildings in cities, explores their public and performances spaces and examines the acoustics and technologies needed in a great building. This beautifully illustrated book is also a must-read for architects, theater designers, theatre historians, and theatre practitioners.
