Theatre Design & Technology - Oct 1965 - 33

DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH AND THEATRE ARTS
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GLORIANNE ENGEL
AND KATHERINE GEORGE

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To facilitate the cooperative inventory of new theatre construction, the following reporting scheme
is employed as an annotation for each new building:
(organizational name)/(city, state, nation)/(type of client) /(architect)/(capacity)/(theatre con
sultant)/(date of opening)
This information IS intended to supplement building inventory activities. it is not a comprehensive
list, being based on available literature only.

Number Fifteen

October 1965

512. "Four Single Purpose Holls for 0 Performing Arts
Center with 0 Big Budget," ARCHITECTURAL
RECORD (December '64), pp. 122-23. Kronnert

519.

THE CAPE ARGUS (Capetown, S. A.) (October 16,
1960), Mag. Sec., p. 1. Survey of existing theatres in
Capetown.

Center for the Performing Arts/University of Illinois,

Urbano,
IIlinois/college/Harri son &
Abramavitzl
2,200, 1,000, 700, and 250/Jo Mielziner and George
Izenouri /.

Article's title succinctly describes
scheduled for construction beginning

project,

1965, and completion
$14,325,000.
513.

in

1967.

Estimated

520.

"GrandAuditoriumdel'Universit; d'Jllinois a Urbano,"
L'ARCHITECTURE
D'AUJOURD'HUI
(SeptembreNavembre '64), pp. 42-44. Illini Assembly Hall well
illustrated.

521.

Graubner, G~rhardu\lomNeoKlossizi5rnllszu Moderne~

thi 5
late

cost:

Wandel
der
Architekturauffassung,"
BAUEN
&
WOHNEN, (Oktober '64), pp. 413·16. Civic Opera'
Istanbul,
T urkey;"ci vi c/Hayati
T aban Ii i 1448/Wi II i

French Potent #1,140,132. As reported in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN #4 (April '62), p. 177 Includes
diagrams

sketching

a

refinement

of

Glasstone, Victor. "What·s Wrong with our Theatres,·'

Feininger's

Ehle/under construction. Rare documentation of a
large praject measurably altered in mid-construction.

Spherical Theatre of c. 1922. Ideo is realized in a
cinema in Hamburg, Germany.

514.

Gabler,

Werner.

"Diskussion urn Theotertechnik und

ein neues Theater in New York," BUHNENTECHNISCHE RUNDSCHAU (August '64), pp. 17-22. Distinguished theatre architect reviews the 1964 USITT
convention and the New York State Theatre for BTR.
515. Genther, Charles, "Apartment Bui Iding by Pace
Associates," ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE (July '63),
pp. 22-23. Center of the terrace of a circular urban
apartment complex in Chicago will be a 330-seat
theatre in the round.

516. Gilder, Rosamond. "An ITI Wonderer in Europe,"
WORLD PREMIERES MONDIALES (Octobre '63), pp.

522. c1tJthrie, Tyrone. "Argument for the Open Stage,"
WORLD THEATRE, No.1 and 2 (1964), pp. 81·84.
523. Hanei, Akio, "The Shinseisaku Theater Culture
Center," JAPAN ARCHITECT (July '64), pp. 11-22.
/Shinseisaku
Theater
Culture
Center/Hachijoji,
Tokyo, Japan/private and civic/Nikken Architectural

Officel/Yukia Enda/ /.
524. Hays, Lawrence. "The Goldsmith's College Theatre,"
TABS (June '64), pp. 27-31. Goldsmith' 5 College
Theatrel England/educ.lEnthoven & Mock/260+/ Low·
rence Hays/2 December '63.
525. Helstien, Melvyn B. "A Preliminary Investigation of

1.. 2,4. Account of visits to a considerable number of
European theatres, mostly new or renovated.

Some Aspects of the Environment for Children's
Theater,'· Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Minne"

517. Glasstone, Victor. "Germany: The Cockpit of Adventure in Design," THE SUNDAY TIMES (London)
(23 September, 1962), Color Section, p. 11. Clo'Ims
planners of a British Notional Theatre could find

mental aspects of theater, including the structure,
were related to child development studies to deter o
mine principles for improved environmental controls
and playhouses for child audiences."'

much

to

emulate

in

the

German

civic

sota,

1962. (Order No. 64·7293.) 333pp.

"E nvi ron-

theatres. leA

theme which has haunted designers for 40 years-the so-called multi-purpose theatre, capable of change
is
brave
and inte-nt on tightening audience-actor
contact and killing the tyranny of the proscenium arch
(and doing it in a variety of exciting 'new' ways, one

day like this, another like that), this spectre has for
years tickled the fancy at innumerable international
congresses . . . . I am can vinced that the 'alterable'
theatre is only feasable, or desirable, in the small
building: 600 seats at most. For the larger, more complex affair the solution lies in a complete re-evaluation
of what was basically good about pre .. cinema theatre....

518. Glasstone, Victor. "New Theatres Are Coming," THE
CAPE ARGUS (Capetown, S, A.) (October 22, 1960),
Mag. Sec., p. 3. Surveys prospects for new theatres
in Capetown.

526. "Hi biya gui Iding of the Nihon Life Insurance Company Nissei Theater," KENCHIKU BUNKA, No. 207
(January '64), pp. 63·71. Murano & Mori, Architects.
527.

"Hotel, Restaurant and Theater complex by

Thornton

M. Abell, Architect," ART AND ARCHITECTURE
(March '63), p. 30-31. Proscenium theatre, horseshoe.
shaped auditorium.

528, I. A. A, M. AUDITORIUMS AND ARENAS SUPPLEMENT: FACTS FROM' A SURVEY BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDITORIUM MANAGERS (Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1964)
27 pp. Published as a supplement to AUDITORIUMS
AND ARENAS(Chicago: Public Administration Service,
1961), 96 pp. Statistical results from a survey of
auditorium managers.
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