Modern architecture for dramatic art: Frank Lloyd Wright's "New Theatre", 1931-2009

• Autores: Joseph M. Siry
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 96, Nº 2, 2014, págs. 213-237
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From 1931 Frank Lloyd Wright developed what he termed the “New Theatre” as the rethinking of an ideal building for drama. Wright saw the theater as a culturally essential medium whose survival had been threatened by film. Like other modernist architects, Wright imagined removing the proscenium stage and shaping an amphitheater of seating around a projecting stage to convey the unity of performance and audience. While self-consciously modern in its form, his solution for an ideal theater, realized in Dallas as the Kalita Humphreys Theater in 1959, drew on cultural memories of historic theater architecture, including Greek and Elizabethan models.