Theatre and Architecture

by Juliet Rufford

Overview

Theatre and architecture are seeming opposites: one a time-based art-form experienced in space, the other a spatial art experienced over time. The book unpicks these assumptions, demonstrating ways in which theatre and architecture are essential to each other and contextualizing their dynamic relationship historically and culturally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230218727
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/2015
Series:	Theatre And , #32
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

JULIET RUFFORD has held research and teaching posts at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has co-convened the International Federation of Theatre Research's Theatre Architecture Working Group since 2010, and she was an artist contributor to the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and to the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research interests span theatre, performance, the politics of space and the performativity of architecture and the object-world.
JULIET RUFFORD has held research and teaching posts at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has co-convened the International Federation of Theatre Research's Theatre Architecture Working Group since 2010, and she was an artist contributor to the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and to the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research interests span theatre, performance, the politics of space and the performativity of architecture and the object-world.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Introduction
Architecture and Mimesis
From Event-space to Space Acts
Theatre, Architecture and Illusion
Theatre and the Tectonic
Conclusion
Further ReadingIndex Acknowledgements.

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From the Publisher

Theatre & Architecture is a really rich resource. This short book is full of ideas, glancing between the opposing mirrors of theatre and architecture. A beautifully structured and wonderfully clear introduction to acknowledged areas of theory and practice that is brimming with ideas for further exploration. Rufford creates an excellent rapport with her reader, summarising complex areas deftly and handling a wealth of material in a way that is at once precise, astute and eminently readable.' - Cathy Turner, University of Exeter, UK