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"The most recent innovation brought to theater technology by the eminent theater designer George C. Izenour is a ""trans-sondant"" curtain, mimicking a wall, which allows halls visually to metamorphose into small or large performance spaces while retaining optimum acoustic quality in both guises. A full set of drawings and photographs of the first trans-sondant structure, in the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (1995), is one of the new features in the second edition of this incomparable reference guide to theater engineering and technology. Izenour ties detailed information on construction, lighting, acoustical structures, electro-mechanical-hydraulic systems, and stage controls to a rich history of technological developments from the invention of the proscenium stage in late Renaissance Italy to the contributions of our own time. All the drawings are produced on the same scale for plan, transverse section, and perspective section. Theater Technology is a reference and source of ideas and inspiration for students, teachers, and practitioners in fields including acoustics, structural engineering, design, lighting, and architecture for the theater. For theater and architecture buffs it offers a detailed and illustrated history of the field and speculation on its future directions."

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Author:   George C. Izenour
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 30.50cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 28.90cm
Weight:   3.211kg
ISBN:  

9780300067668

ISBN 10:   0300067666
Pages:   588
Publication Date:   25 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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George C. Izenour, professor emeritus of theater design at the Yale Drama School, has designed more than one hundred theaters around the world. He is the inventor of the Izenour board, a highly sophisticated mechanism for lighting control that is the most widely used instrument of its kind.

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