Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Hugh Hardy ,  Stephen A. Kliment
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.578kg
ISBN:  

9780471684381

ISBN 10:   0471684384
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface (Stephen A. Kilment). Acknowledgments. Introduction (Hugh Hardy). 1. Planning the Theater (Hugh Hardy). 2. A Place Designed for Performance (Joshua Dachs). 3. An Auditorium and Stage Design Guide (Richard Pilbrow). 4. Stage Design: Technology and Flexibility (Leonard Auerbach, Steve Pollock and Steven Friedlander). 5. Backstage Planning (Keith Gerchak). 6. Incorporating Building Codes (Jack Martin). 7. Principles of Acoustic Design (Lawrence Kirkegaard and Dawn Schuette). 8. Flexibility in Acoustic Design (Christopher Jaffe). 9. Lighting Public Spaces (Paul Marantz). 10. Bringing the New to Old Theaters (Hugh Hardy). 11. Organization: Process and Team (Hugh Hardy). 12. The Business and Art of Theater Management (Duncan Webb). Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

Reviews

The book does a good job of introducing to the uninitiated to the peculiarities of theatre architecture...it makes absorbing reading. (Lighting & Sound International, January 2009)

Author Information

HUGH HARDY, FAIA, is a principal of the New York firm H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, LLC (a successor firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates), which is recognized for its performing arts projects, including theaters and concert halls. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates won the 1981 AIA National Firm of the Year Award and designed Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall, and Hardy was personally responsible for restoration of Radio City Music Hall and two theaters on 42nd Street in New York City. STEPHEN A. KLIMENT, FAIA (Series Founder and Editor), is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was chief editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.

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