Architecture As a Performing Art.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Play's the Thing -- Part I Designing Performance -- 1 Architecture as a Performing Art: Two Analogical Reflections -- 2 Performing Theōria: Architectural Acts in Aristophanes' Peace -- 3 Toward Performative Architectural Drawing: Paul Klee's Enacted Lines -- 4 Performing the Modernist Dwelling: The Unité d'Habitation of Marseille -- 5 Staging: Making a Scene -- 6 Salvaged Layers: A Collaborative Site-Specific Performance -- Part II Performing Design -- 7 Through the Lens: Image and Illusion at Play in the Ideal City -- 8 The Satyric Scene: Palladio's Villa Rotonda -- 9 Performing Architecture: From Medieval Festival to Modern-Day Carnival -- 10 The Political Street Theater of Basel's Fasnacht as an Agent of Social Change -- 11 Turned Tables: The Public as Performers in Jean Nouvel's Pre-performance Spaces -- 12 Theatrical Doubles: The Affecting Presence of Oskar Schlemmer's Wall Designs -- 13 Paideia: Theater of Discussion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This collection of essays reveals a deep alliance between architecture and the performing arts, uncovering its roots in ancient stories, and tracing a continuous tradition of thought that emerges in contemporary practice. With fresh insight, the authors ask how buildings perform with people as partners, rather than how they look as formal compositions. It advances architectural theory, history, and criticism by proposing the lens of performance as a way to engage the multiple roles that buildings can play, without reducing them to functional categories.

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