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This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre,
and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social
spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect's most crucial
capacity, underpinning memory, invention and compassion. No simple
power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied,
social and situational. Its performative potential and holistic
scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres
of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship
between theatre and architecture with essays, interviews and
entr'actes arranged in three sections: Bodies, Settings and
(Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spectrum of examples
and contexts, from ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy to modern
Europe, North America, India and Japan. Topics include: the central
role of the human body in design; the city as a place of political
drama, protest and phenomenal play; and world-making through
language, gesture and myth. Chapters also consider sacred and
magical functions of theatre in Balinese and Persian settings;
eccentric experiments at the Bauhaus and 1970 Osaka World Expo; and
ecological action and collective healing amid contemporary climate
chaos. Inspired by architect and educator Marco Frascari, the book
performs as a Janus-like memory theatre, recalling and projecting
the architect's perennial task of reimagining a more meaningful
world. This collection will delight and provoke thinkers and makers
in theatrical arts and built environment disciplines, especially
Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design.
This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre,
and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social
spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect's most crucial
capacity, underpinning memory, invention and compassion. No simple
power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied,
social and situational. Its performative potential and holistic
scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres
of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship
between theatre and architecture with essays, interviews and
entr'actes arranged in three sections: Bodies, Settings and
(Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spectrum of examples
and contexts, from ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy to modern
Europe, North America, India and Japan. Topics include: the central
role of the human body in design; the city as a place of political
drama, protest and phenomenal play; and world-making through
language, gesture and myth. Chapters also consider sacred and
magical functions of theatre in Balinese and Persian settings;
eccentric experiments at the Bauhaus and 1970 Osaka World Expo; and
ecological action and collective healing amid contemporary climate
chaos. Inspired by architect and educator Marco Frascari, the book
performs as a Janus-like memory theatre, recalling and projecting
the architect's perennial task of reimagining a more meaningful
world. This collection will delight and provoke thinkers and makers
in theatrical arts and built environment disciplines, especially
Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design.
Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful
buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have
pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect,
academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary
texts, which explore the intellectual, theoretical and practical
substance of the architectural discipline. As a student in Venice
during the late 1960s, Frascari was taught and mentored by Carlo
Scarpa. Later he moved to North America with his family, where he
became a fulltime academic. Throughout his academic career, he
continued to work on numerous architectural projects, including
exhibitions, competition entries, and designs for approximately 35
buildings, a small number of which were built. As a means of
(re)constructing the theatre of imaginative theory within which
these buildings were created, Sam Ridgway draws on a wide selection
of Frascari's texts, including his richly poetic book Monsters of
Architecture, to explore the themes of representation,
demonstration, and anthropomorphism. Three of Frascari's delightful
buildings are then brought to light and interpreted, revealing a
sophisticated and interwoven relationship between texts and
buildings.
Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful
buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have
pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect,
academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary
texts, which explore the intellectual, theoretical and practical
substance of the architectural discipline. As a student in Venice
during the late 1960s, Frascari was taught and mentored by Carlo
Scarpa. Later he moved to North America with his family, where he
became a fulltime academic. Throughout his academic career, he
continued to work on numerous architectural projects, including
exhibitions, competition entries, and designs for approximately 35
buildings, a small number of which were built. As a means of
(re)constructing the theatre of imaginative theory within which
these buildings were created, Sam Ridgway draws on a wide selection
of Frascari's texts, including his richly poetic book Monsters of
Architecture, to explore the themes of representation,
demonstration, and anthropomorphism. Three of Frascari's delightful
buildings are then brought to light and interpreted, revealing a
sophisticated and interwoven relationship between texts and
buildings.
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