"Good architecture is not produced by an individual - it takes a collaborative effort by a design team"

This book, particularly, is important to those designing performing arts spaces – it provides the essential background to many aspects, from the brief and the business plan, right through what you need to know about auditorium design, the proscenium zone, planning the foyers, small drama spaces and major lyric theatres. It is not a design guide, but it provides knowledge that can only come from experienced practitioners.

Volume 5 - Planning and Architecture

PA1    It all starts with the brief and business plan
PA2    Auditorium form is not everything
PA3    Irritations in the throat
PA4    Uncomplicated drama spaces
PA5    Opera and lyric auditoria
PA6    Design of the orchestra pit
PA7    Putting the past to work
PA8    Handling the public
PA9    Scenography and theatre architecture
PA10  Performing arts in urban regeneration

CD     Design processes for performing arts buildings

A4, paperback, full colour, 276 pp
ISBN 978-0-9547666-7-2