Theatres of architectural imagination / edited by Lisa Landrum and Sam Ridgway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landrum, Lisa, editor.

Ridgway, Sam, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture).

Performative (Philosophy).

Imagination (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Lisa Landrum is Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University, and a post-professional Master's and PhD in Architectural History and Theory from McGill University. She is a registered architect in New York State and Manitoba, and a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Her research on architectural agency and the theatrical origins of architectural acts is published in several books, including Reading Architecture (Routledge 2019), Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (Routledge 2017), Architecture's Appeal (Routledge 2015), Architecture as a Performing Art (Routledge 2013), and Architecture and Justice (Routledge 2013). Sam Ridgway is an architect and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has a Master of Architecture from the University of Adelaide and a PhD from the University of Sydney. His research and publications have focused on a theorization of factory-made buildings, construction theory, architectural representation, and the texts and buildings of the remarkable architect and academic Marco Frascari. Recent work explores architectural imagination by enquiring into the complex relationship between architecture and theatre. His publications include Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration (Routledge 2015), and "A Theater of Architectural Monsters," in Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity (Routledge 2020).

Contents:

<P>1. Introduction</P><I><P>Lisa Landrum and Sam Ridgway</P></I><P></P><B><P>Bodies </P></B><P></P><P>2. The Dramatization of Architecture: Bodies in the Drawings of Álvaro Siza</P><I><P>João Miguel Couto Duarte</P></I><P></P><P>3. <EM>Die Turnstunde</EM>: Hans Hollein's Museum Performing Itself</P><I><P>Eva Branscome</P></I><P></P><P>4. Theatrical Metaphors in Bruno Schulz's Prose: aA Play of Imagination for Potential Architecture</P><I><P>Anca Matyiku</P></I><P></P><P>5. Lecoq's Mimodynamics for Architects: Practicing a Renewal of Architectural Imagination</P><I><P>Laura Gioeni</P></I><P></P><P>6. Projecting the Eccentric Theatre: Representations of the Synesthetic Experience at the Bauhaus</P><I><P>Jodi La Coe</P></I><P></P><P>7. Performing the Common: Political Imagination of Protest in Place </P><I><P>Paul Holmquist</P></I><P><STRONG>Entr'acte A</STRONG></P><P>Constructing Table

A Polyphonic Drawing Experiment Between Anamorphic Disguise and Dissection</P><I><P>Bahar Avanoğlu and DrawingConstructions</P></I><P></P><B><P>Settings </P></B><P></P><P>8. Roman Theatre's <EM>Scaenae Frons</EM> as a Thematic Edifice</P><I><P>Dagmar Motycka Weston</P></I><P></P><P>9. A Question of Décor: Political Theatre in Renaissance Ferrara</P><I><P>Indra Kagis McEwen</P></I><P></P><P>10. Public Spaces as Theatres of Action: Lawrence Halprin's Phenomenological Perspective on Cities</P><I><P>Gaia Piccarolo</P></I><P></P><P>11. "The Play's the Thing": On Theatricality and Modern Public Space</P><I><P>Alexandra Stara</P></I><P></P><P>12. Imagining a Participatory Theatre in Ahmedabad</P><I><P>Daniel Williamson</P></I><P></P><P>13. Relations among Things: Aldo Rossi and Seville's Semana Santa</P><I><P>Lily Chi</P></I><P></P><B><P>Entr'acte B</P></B><P></P><P>A Good Host</P><I><P>Roger Watts</P></I><P></P><P>Black Box of Imagination: Deconstructing the Notion of Theatres of Imagination</P><I><P>Marianne McKenna</P></I><P></P><B><P>(Inter)Actions</P></B><P></P><P>14. A Tale of Two Foyers: On Space between Thresholds</P><I><P>Adam Sharr</P></I><P></P><P>15. The Palace and the Plaza: A Postwar Convergence</P><I><P>Marcela Aragüez</P></I><P></P><P>16. A Delegated Performance for Public Space: The Mile Long Opera </P><I><P>Alessandra Mariani</P></I><P></P><P>17. Monsters of Architecture and the Magical Function of Theatre: A Look at Balinese Temples</P><I><P>Tracey Eve Winton</P><P></P></I><P>18. An Encounter with Wholeness: <I>Vis and Ramin</I> at Persepolis</P><I><P>Negin Djavaherian</P></I><B><P></P><P>Entr'Acte C</P></B><P>Drumming in the Hall of the Mountain </P><I><P>Stefan Jovanović</P></I><P></P><P>19. Earthly Theatres: Moving gGounds, Suffusing Airs, Sentient Surrounds</P><I><P>Frédérique Aït-Touati and Andrew Todd in conversation with and introduced by Lisa Landrum</P></I><P></P><P>20. Janus/<I>In Time</I>: Universal Openings via Live Arts: Theatre, Dance and Architecture</P><I><P>Jacqueline Loewen and End of the West Collective, Avinash Muralidharan Pillai Saralakumari, David Thomas, and Scott Henderson in conversation with and introduced by Lisa Landrum</P></I>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781003297666

1003297668

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1000869822

1000869776

9781000869774

Publisher Number:

40031852282

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