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Buildings for the Performing Arts: A Design and Development Guide
This Design and Development Guide is an essential book for those who are involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts, from local to metropolitan locations. It includes the stages in the development, decisions to be taken, information requirements, feasibility and advice necessary in the design and development of a new or adapted building.
Part one of this guide provides the background information about the organisation of the performing arts, the prevailing issues, the client and various building types. In the second part, the author deals with the components of design and development, identifying the roles of the client, advisors and consultants, the stages to be achieved, including client's proposal feasibility, the process of briefing, design and building and eventually hand-over and opening night, with a consideration of the building use. Studies include the assessment of demand, site requirements, initial brief, building design and financial viability. Information requirements, as design standards, for the auditorium and platform/stage, and the support facilities, are included. Separate studies focus on the adaptation of existing buildings and provision for children and young persons.
THE CONTENT COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF PERFORMING ARTS (CLASSICAL MUSIC, POP/ROCK, JAZZ, MUSICALS, DANCE, DRAMA) AND PROVIDES INFORMATION ON EACH AS AN ART FROM AND NECESSITIES TO HOUSE PERFORMANCES.
* Comprehensive view of design and development including assessment of demand, site requirement, initial brief, building design and financial viability
* Coverage includes all categories including classical music, pop/ rock, jazz, musicals, dance and drama
* Links information to the design process and sequence of decision-making
Part one of this guide provides the background information about the organisation of the performing arts, the prevailing issues, the client and various building types. In the second part, the author deals with the components of design and development, identifying the roles of the client, advisors and consultants, the stages to be achieved, including client's proposal feasibility, the process of briefing, design and building and eventually hand-over and opening night, with a consideration of the building use. Studies include the assessment of demand, site requirements, initial brief, building design and financial viability. Information requirements, as design standards, for the auditorium and platform/stage, and the support facilities, are included. Separate studies focus on the adaptation of existing buildings and provision for children and young persons.
THE CONTENT COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF PERFORMING ARTS (CLASSICAL MUSIC, POP/ROCK, JAZZ, MUSICALS, DANCE, DRAMA) AND PROVIDES INFORMATION ON EACH AS AN ART FROM AND NECESSITIES TO HOUSE PERFORMANCES.
* Comprehensive view of design and development including assessment of demand, site requirement, initial brief, building design and financial viability
* Coverage includes all categories including classical music, pop/ rock, jazz, musicals, dance and drama
* Links information to the design process and sequence of decision-making
- GenresArchitecture
296 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1996
About the author
Ian Appleton
6 booksIan Appleton (1939 - 2020) was an English architect with an expertise in theatre design.
He attended Kingston Grammar School, and then studied architecture at Kingston College of Art. He was then employed by some of the most important architects in London at the time, Chamberlin Powell and Bon, working on the radical new Barbican development in the City of London, and later joining Peter Moro and partners to work on the Nottingham Playhouse.
He continued to work on theatre projects, being project architect for the interior of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and also project architect for the design of the (recently listed) Gulbenkian Theatre in Hull.
In 1964 he came north to Edinburgh, to take the Civic Design Course at the Department of Urban Studies and Regional Planning headed by Percy Johnson-Marshall.
He was the first chairman of the Little Sparta Trust set up to support Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work of art set in the Pentland Hills. He was also the driving force behind the erection of a Monument to Patrick Geddes in Sandeman House, off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, sculpted by Kenny Hunter.
He attended Kingston Grammar School, and then studied architecture at Kingston College of Art. He was then employed by some of the most important architects in London at the time, Chamberlin Powell and Bon, working on the radical new Barbican development in the City of London, and later joining Peter Moro and partners to work on the Nottingham Playhouse.
He continued to work on theatre projects, being project architect for the interior of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and also project architect for the design of the (recently listed) Gulbenkian Theatre in Hull.
In 1964 he came north to Edinburgh, to take the Civic Design Course at the Department of Urban Studies and Regional Planning headed by Percy Johnson-Marshall.
He was the first chairman of the Little Sparta Trust set up to support Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work of art set in the Pentland Hills. He was also the driving force behind the erection of a Monument to Patrick Geddes in Sandeman House, off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, sculpted by Kenny Hunter.
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