A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Staging Ruins: Paestum and Theatricality
This chapter contains sections titled:
The Sequence of Experience: Acting and Directing
Architecture as Scenographic Experience
The Landscape as Scenery
The Ruins as a Stage
Theatricality as Means of Plotting an Architectural Experience
Staging Ruins: Paestum and Theatricality
This chapter contains sections titled:
The Sequence of Experience: Acting and Directing
Architecture as Scenographic Experience
The Landscape as Scenery
The Ruins as a Stage
Theatricality as Means of Plotting an Architectural Experience
Staging Ruins: Paestum and Theatricality
van Eck, Caroline (editor) / Bussels, Stijn (editor) / de Jong, Sigrid (author)
2011-04-14
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
architecture and theatre, relationship ‐ in Soane's ideas, a compelling one , architects, expressing experiences in words and images ‐ making others understand what they saw , living the experience, a crucial analogy ‐ between architecture and theatre, being that of temporality , staging ruins, Paestum and theatricality ‐ British architect John Soane, experience of seeing and walking through a building as watching a theatre performance , John Soane, in one of his Royal Academy Lectures ‐ and pausing, in looking at architecture , ruins as a stage, Paolo Antonio Paoli alluding ‐ view of ruins closer by, in his monograph on Paestum , Paestum, problems to architects ‐ testimonies of travellers, temples forming a conundrum to them , Paestum, and peculiarity of architects ‐ struggling to define, what they had seen and to represent experiences in drawings and texts , strategies of representation, in the theatre ‐ architects and travelers, peculiar Paestum in an accessible way to eighteenth‐century public , sequence of experience, acting and directing ‐ sequences, drawing on eighteenth‐century theatre, a storehouse for representational strategies