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Architecture should be recognised as theatre, in the sense that architecture should have character. It should be able to respond to the inhabitant/viewer and prepare itself for their presence, spatially. People who are very self‐obsessed, under extreme pressure, blind, or in an extreme hurry may not notice the place they are present. However, architecture should be aware that for other people, the combination of presence, atmosphere, procedure and context adds up to something. The theatre of architecture is also the theatre of life. When commissioned in 2008 to make a block of 100 apartments in the new Madrid suburb of Vallecas, people wished to bring it to life: with sports action on the roof, community action in the kiosks underneath, a liveliness of coloured shuttering and a bright blue form. However, all those features vanished when the Spanish financial meltdown came. It left the building as a hulk, no doubt enjoyable for the private lives within; however, offering little to the sense of theatre, so desperately missing from the vast new dusty suburb.
Architecture should be recognised as theatre, in the sense that architecture should have character. It should be able to respond to the inhabitant/viewer and prepare itself for their presence, spatially. People who are very self‐obsessed, under extreme pressure, blind, or in an extreme hurry may not notice the place they are present. However, architecture should be aware that for other people, the combination of presence, atmosphere, procedure and context adds up to something. The theatre of architecture is also the theatre of life. When commissioned in 2008 to make a block of 100 apartments in the new Madrid suburb of Vallecas, people wished to bring it to life: with sports action on the roof, community action in the kiosks underneath, a liveliness of coloured shuttering and a bright blue form. However, all those features vanished when the Spanish financial meltdown came. It left the building as a hulk, no doubt enjoyable for the private lives within; however, offering little to the sense of theatre, so desperately missing from the vast new dusty suburb.
Motive 1: Architecture as Theatre
Cook, Peter (editor)
Architecture Workbook ; 8-17
2016-01-29
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
performance , experience , theatre , Architecture , action , building , apartments
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