Buildings for the Performing Arts, Second Edition: A Design and Development Guide

Performing Architecture: Opera Houses, Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-first Century

Even in this age of varied home entertainment and fast-paced mass media, immense creative energy is being directed towards new space for live performance. Profusely illustrated with photographs, computer renderings and architectural drawings, Performing Architecture explores fifty of today’s finest performance spaces, as well as recently refurbished, restored and transformed buildings. A brief introduction traces the post-war development of theatre and concert hall design, and sets out the circumstances today that have led to such a rich provision...

Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities

This Building Type Basics book provides an accessible guide to the essentials of designing these specialized environments—including the underlying issues of financing, feasibility, and the diverse roles of the design and construction team, sponsor, banks, impresario, and manager. Complete with a wealth of descriptive floor plans, diagrams, photographs, and case studies, it features need-to-know information on design including such technical topics as lighting, acoustics, and materials.

Snohetta Works

Snoehetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years, and contains texts by various authors. Projects include the Library of Alexandria (2002), the New Opera House in Oslo (2008), and the Gateway Project in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dubai. Snoehetta’s works and projects revolve around a collaboration and interchange between various disciplines.

Architecture, Actor and Audience

In this study, Ian Mackintosh explores the neglected area of theatre design and its significant contribution to the theatrical experience. Mackintosh draws upon his own experience in theatre design as well as the testimony of theatre workers and audiences to examine the importance of theatre architecture from the time of Shakespeare, to the proliferation of civic auditoria in the 1950s and 1960s, and the minimalist ``black boxes'' of the 1970s.

Theaters

A richly illustrated history of American theaters from the eighteenth-century opera house to the modern movie multiplex. A theater is a revered cultural artifact and a technological challenge. This visual sourcebook traces its colorful and varied forms as they developed in early America, on the western frontier, and in cities from coast to coast. The first comprehensive study of American theaters, it illustrates their wide range from raucous music halls to vaudeville, from circus to grand opera, from World's Fair to Coney Island, from nickelodeon to glorious picture palace...

Theatres and Concert Halls

This new volume in our series Construction and Design Manual introduces the building typologies Theatres and Concert Halls. Expert contributors provide a brief summary of the history of theatre architecture in Europe, an overview of theatre interiors and of theatre design in general.

Theater Design

This widely acclaimed book, a comprehensive reference to all aspects of theater planning and construction and an authoritative history of theater design from ancient times to the present, is essential for anyone with an interest in theater. George C. Izenour, acknowledged worldwide for his superb technical expertise, adds an appendix with new drawings to this edition of his classic guide.

Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice

Get the leading guide to acoustics for architects, engineers, and interior designers. A widely recognized, comprehensive reference to acoustic principles for all concerned with the built environment, Architectural Acoustics, Second Edition provides design professionals with up-to-date information on basic concepts, acoustical materials, and technologies for controlling wanted or unwanted sound within and around buildings. Written by a team of internationally recognized experts and experienced consultants, this Second Edition covers fundamental acoustics...