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 for performance. Buildings featured range from Frank Gehry's landmark Disney Opera House in Los Angeles to the quieter Unicorn Theatre for Children in London; and from the Tenerife Opera House by Santiago Calatrava to the Guangzhou Opera House, China, by Zaha Hadid. A celebratory study, this book showcases some of the most exhilarating buildings of our time.
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This is a book to salivate over - BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Written with a clear passion for the subject - accessible guide to a truly fascinating and much overlooked area of architecture - ANTIQUES MAGAZINE
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Michael Hammond, co-founder of World Architecture News, a global news channel for architecture, is also a freelance writer and journalist specializing in architecture and urban design.
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This review is from: Performing Architecture: Opera Houses, Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
This book goes around various projects showing the main features in their design. It includes images of both built and non built projects. I found the book interesting but also think it could have been way better if it had shwon more technical information and details of some of the built examples. If you just want to have a sort of reference about theater designs then I recommend it to you, but, if you are looking for more technical and problem solving details then this book falls short, that is why I gave it 4 stars
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This review is from: Performing Architecture: Opera Houses, Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
All the new halls and cultural spaces intended for public performance. Text is informal but pictures talk for themselves. This is not a technical text but rather an artistical aproach to expose the beauty of a very specialized field .
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Contemporary Art from Inside Out,
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PERFORMING ARCHITECTURE, a book compiled by Michael Hammond, an expert on architecture and urban design, brings a tour of some of the more interesting and accomplished works of architectural art conceived and built for the performing arts. The buildings he highlights have all the grandeur of cathedrals - structures of the elevation of the spirit and soul as well as edifices that stand alone as architectural wonders of design and function. Not only are there many photographs of both the exteriors and interiors of these buildings, but Hammond also includes the initial and subsequent drawings by the designers of these wonders, computer renderings and commentary about the concept and construction history of these landmark buildings.
Hammond profiles some 50-odd projects from the Shanghai Grand Theatre designed by Arte Jean-Marie Charpentier, to London's Music Box, designed by Foreign Office Architects and the Unicorn Theater for Children, the Tenerife Opera House in the Canary Islands and the Palau de les arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain, The Grand Canal Square Theater in Dublin, Ireland, the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Lincoln Center in New York, The Guangzhou Opera House and the Beijing Opera House in China, the Oppenheim Miami Dade College Campus Center in Florida, the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York and of course, Frank Gehry's splendid Walt Disney Concert Hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. The author carefully points out that the 'first' distinguished contemporary building for the arts was the 1973 Sydney Opera House, Australia, and icon image of the arts: since its construction architects and designers have become more alert o the need for the changes in acoustical engineering and the recognition that many of the old buildings for the performing arts were not only aging physically but also not compatible with the new concepts in how opera, dance, and theater could be enhanced by contemporary buildings design specifically for the arts. This is a grand book and one that will appeal to those who study architecture, those who are committed to the performing arts and long for the secret places of these great monuments to be more accessible, and to those fascinated by urban design in the 21st century. This is a monumental book about monuments to the arts! Grady Harp, May 11
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