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Architecture as a Performing Art (Paperback)
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Architecture as a Performing Art (Paperback)
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How do buildings act with people and among people in the
performances of life? This collection of essays reveals a deep
alliance between architecture and the performing arts, uncovering
its roots in ancient stories, and tracing a continuous tradition of
thought that emerges in contemporary practice. With fresh insight,
the authors ask how buildings perform with people as partners,
rather than how they look as formal compositions. They focus on
actions: the door that offers the possibility of making a dramatic
entrance, the window that frames a scene, and the city street that
is transformed in carnival. The essays also consider the design
process as a performance improvised among many players and offer
examples of recent practice that integrates theater and dance. This
collection advances architectural theory, history, and criticism by
proposing the lens of performance as a way to engage the multiple
roles that buildings can play, without reducing them to functional
categories. By casting architecture as spatial action rather than
as static form, these essays open a promising avenue for future
investigation. For architects, the essays propose integrating
performance into design through playful explorations that can
reveal intense relationships between people and place, and among
people in place. Such practices develop an architectural
imagination that intuitively asks, 'How might people play out their
stories in this place?' and 'How might this place spark new
stories?' Questions such as these reside in the heart of all of the
essays presented here. Together, they open a position in the
intersection between everyday life and staged performance to
rethink the role of architectural design.
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