Theatre Buildings
eBook - PDF

Theatre Buildings

A Design Guide

  1. 444 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Theatre Buildings

A Design Guide

About this book

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), 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) 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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032355290
eBook ISBN
9781000964455
Edition
2
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Forewords
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notes on contributors
  10. List of illustrations
  11. Abbreviations and acronyms
  12. Glossary of theatre terminology
  13. Section 1: Design principles
  14. Section 2: Developing the brief
  15. Section 3: Social principles for the twenty-first century
  16. Section 4: Front of house and other public spaces
  17. Section 5: Auditorium design principles
  18. Section 6: Auditorium: Sensory and practical imperatives
  19. Section 7: Backstage creative environment
  20. Section 8: The stage and stage machinery
  21. Section 9: Lighting, sound and video
  22. Section 10: Restoration and conversion of existing buildings
  23. Section 11: Moving forwards: a call to action
  24. Reference projects
  25. List of projects
  26. Suggested further reading and helpful organisations
  27. Index