Performing Architectures

Andrew Filmer is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK. Juliet Rufford is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

A lively collection of accessible and engaging essays from artists, theorists, and teachers ... In the area of theatre and performance, this book will be a valuable addition and complement to existing publications on theatre architecture ... [the book] has much to offer all scholars and teachers who concern themselves with the ways that performance operates in and through space.

• List of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction - Andrew Filmer and Juliet RuffordPart I Projects2 What Might Be A Nietzschean Architecture? – Dorita Hannah, University of Tasmania, Australia3 Factory, Street and Theatre in Brazil: Two Theatres by Lina Bo Bardi – Evelyn Furquim Werneck, Lima Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil4 Imaginative Configurations: Performance Space in the Global City – Klaus van den Berg, Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee, USA5 The Play of Place: Producing Space and Theatre near Mumbai – Himanshu Burte, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai6 KHOR II: An Architecture-as-Theatre Project by TAAT – Breg Horemans and Gert-Jan StamPart II Practices7 Living Between Architectures: Inhabiting Clifford McLucas's Built Scenography – Mike Pearson, Pearson Architects) and Cathy Turner, University of Exeter, UK8 Occupying the Scene: Architectural Experience in Theatre and Performance – Andrew Filmer, Aberystwyth University, UK9 Housing Acts: Performing Public Housing – David Roberts, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK10 Double Visions: Architectural Models in Performance - Natalie Rewa, Queen's University, Canada11 In Orbit of Dead Man Friend – Alex Schweder, University of Cambridge, UKPart III Pedagogies12 Towards a Tectonics of Devised Performance: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Learning/Teaching – Juliet Rufford, University of Exeter, UK13 Bringing Performance into Architectural Pedagogy – Beth Weinstein, University of Arizona, USA14 The Watermill Center: An Interview with Robert Wilson – Andrew Filmer References Index