Modern Architecture in Theatre: The Experiments of Art et Action

If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the

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The Experiments of Art et Action

Gray Read

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MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN THEATRE

DOI: 10.1057/9781137368683

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Modern Architecture in Theatre

Also by Gray Read ARCHITECTURE AS A PERFORMING ART (edited with Marcia Feuerstein, 2013)

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THE MINIATURE AND THE GIGANTIC IN PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTURE: Essays on Designing the City to Human Scale (2007)

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10.1057/9781137368683 - Modern Architecture in Theatre, Gray Read

Gray Read Associate Professor of Architecture, Florida International University, USA

DOI: 10.1057/9781137368683

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Modern Architecture in Theatre: The Experiments of Art et Action

modern architecture in theatre Copyright © Gray Read, 2014. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–36869–0 EPUB ISBN: 978–1–137–36868–3 PDF ISBN: 978–1–137–36867–6 Hardback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. First edition: 2014 www.palgrave.com/pivot DOI: 10.1057/9781137368683

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137368683

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For Marco Frascari

List of Illustrations 

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Architecture as a Performing Art

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1 Hearing the Voices of the Universe: Choral Theatre

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2 The