In 2021, its Diamond Jubilee year, the Association of British
Theatre Technicians (ABTT) undertook to revise Theatre Buildings: a
Design Guide (Routledge, 2010). This new edition (Routledge, 2023)
has substantially re-written text with fresh images and entirely
new reference projects, providing essential guidance for all those
engaged in the design of theatre buildings. Edited by Margaret
Shewring (Emeritus Reader, University of Warwick, former director
of the postgraduate diploma and MA in theatre consultancy), with
David Hamer (consultant at Theatre Projects) as drawings editor,
this new publication is written by a team of international experts,
architects, theatre consultants, acousticians, engineers and
industry professionals led by Tim Foster (Foster Wilson Size,
architects, also editor of Section 10: Restoration and Conversion
of Existing Buildings) and Robin Townley (CEO of the ABTT). It
provides an invaluable resource for those looking to build, remodel
or conserve theatre buildings, taking into account the significant
changes which have taken place in the last twelve years in all
aspects of theatre design and technical practice. It locates those
changes in the wider context of the need for sustainability in the
theatre industry in response to the climate emergency, inclusivity,
diversity of access, placemaking and concerns for health and
wellbeing. This new edition provides guidance for anyone who seeks
inspiration and encouragement to create or improve a place of
entertainment or who seeks to understand what might be required to
accommodate an audience for the presentation of live performance
and the successful use, operation and organisation of such a venue.
Its generous format and the thirty-two new reference projects, more
than 260 high-resolution colour images, and 175 diagrams and
specially commissioned plans, make it accessible and informative
both to the general reader and the professional specialist. The new
edition has two Forewords, one by Nica Burns (OBE), Chief Executive
of Nimax Theatres, who opened the new @sohoplace in October 2022
and one by Mark Dakin, formerly Head of Production and Technical at
the Royal Opera House, London, now Managing Director of TAIT. Mark
is a Fellow of the ABTT.
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