Theatres and Concert Halls

Construction and Design Manual

This new volume in the DOM Publishers' series Construction and Design Manual introduces the building typologies Theatres and Concert Halls. Expert contributors provide a brief summary of the history of theatre architecture in Europe, an overview of theatre interiors and of theatre design in general.

Featured are 32 projects, each illustrated with full colour photographs, scale plans and sketches and accompanied by explanatory text. Imposing structures by Pritzker Prize winners Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Gottfried Böhm and Christian de Portzamparc as well as signature buildings by internationally acclaimed architects such as UN Studio, Dominique Perrault and Santiago Calatrava are all showcased here.

About the author
Birgit Schmolke, born in 1965, studied architecture in Hamburg. She worked as an architect in various architecture firms in Hamburg. Her first publication was Architektur Neues Baden-Württemberg (2006). She is currently working as a freelance architect and author in Stuttgart.

Birgit Schmolke
Theatres and Concert Halls
Construction and Design Manual
Spring 2011
360 pages, 225 × 280 mm
over 450 images
hardcover with elastic strap
ISBN: 978-3-938666-94-4, English
ISBN: 978-3-938666-62-3, German
EUR 78,00

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