Perform: Designing for the Performing Arts Book

Designed with renowned acousticians and theatre planners, these performance halls are both architecturally exciting and technically advanced. This book explores the design of beautiful and uplifting spaces that allow the performing arts to shine while adding life to their surroundings. Known for its soaring towers that mark the skylines of the world's great cities, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects is also a leading designer of performing arts centres, including critically acclaimed venues for opera, dance, plays, and concerts. The firm's award-winning work in this highly demanding field is vast, with examples ranging from one of largest performing arts centres in the United States to intimate theatres on college campuses. Highlighting the firm's technically rigorous and aesthetically inspiring designs, 'Performing Arts Centers' features a selection of concert halls and theatres, and cultural centres, including such prominent and distinctive works as the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Designed with renowned acousticians and theater planners, these performance halls are both architecturally exciting and technically advanced. This book explores the design of beautiful and uplifting spaces that allow the performing arts to shine while adding life to their surroundings. AUTHOR: From the World Financial Center in New York to the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects has designed many prestigious projects. Its portfolio is wide-ranging, from retail, residential and mixed-use projects to academic buildings, libraries, museums, and research centres. Its work has received international critical acclaim and hundreds of design awards, including the American Institute of Architects' Firm Award, the highest honour for an architectural practice. SELLING POINTS: - Internationally-renowned performing arts centre designs - Features projects from all around the United States - Beautiful spaces designed to enhance the performing arts 200 col.Read More