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Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities

 Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities
Item #: 165-4384-06
Author: Hugh Hardy, Stephen A. Kliment
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Format: Hardcover
 Your Price: $75.00

Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities is a great reference for all designers.
Finally, an accessible guide to the essentials of designing these specialized environments-including the underlying issues of financing, feasibility, and the diverse roles of the design and construction team, sponsor, banks, impresario, and manager.

Complete with a wealth of descriptive floor plans, diagrams, photographs, and case studies, it features need-to-know information on design including such technical topics as lighting, acoustics, and materials. 208 pp.

Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities - Table of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Planning the Theater
  • A Place Designed for Performance
  • An Auditorium and Stage Design Guide
  • Stage Design: Technology and Flexibility
  • Backstage Planning
  • Incorporating Building Codes
  • Principles of Acoustic Design
  • Flexibility in Acoustic Design
  • Lighting Public Spaces
  • Bringing the New to Old Theaters
  • Organization: Process and Team
  • The Business and Art of Theater Management
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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