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623.

"Gammage: From Generols to Porticulars, ' PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE (October '65), pp. 210-211. Grady
Gammage Memoria!

639,

Auditorium / Arizona State University,

stage

Tempe, Arizona/Fronk Lloyd Wright and Wesley Peters
3,OOO/George Izenour / September 64.
624.

"Die Grosse H~ngende Verglosung bei der Theoterdoppelanlage in Frankfurt om Main," ARCHITECTUR
UNO WDHNFORM, Nr. 5 (1965). pp. 170-72. Noteworthy
gloss technology in the facade of Frankfurt's civic

"Oklahoma: An Extra Life," PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October 65). p. 192. Double elevator foreresembling

proportions

many

allow

European

civic

theatres:

ample

anteproscenium

area

to

as

serve

on

open playing space. Seats 668 or 588.
640,

theatre.

"Olathe: Consultant to the Rescue," PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE
{October
65), p.
176. Olathe High
School, Olathe, Kansas /Shaver & Co./265/ James H.
Miller/ /. Pronounced thrust to playing area, with on
upstoge

area

curtained.

Decided

variation

on earlier

Miller-assisted plans.
625.

"Hilton: Technology Equals Architecture," PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October 65), pp. 192-92. Loretto
Hilton Center at Webster College in Webster Groves,
Missouri.

641.

Heavy dependence on mechanized partitions to

project for the civic theatre at Dusseldorf.

exclude three peripheral seating areas in a multi·use hall.

626.

Holler, Josef. "On the Development of Cultural Education
in
Developing
Countries,"
ACT A SCAENOGRAPHICA VI, No.3, pp. 59-61. Not transloted. Author

642.

Centers

is on oudio·visuol expert.

627. Hromadka. Milan and Antonin Studeny. "Houses of Culture
in Villages and the Urbanistic Proble",s of Culture
Facilities,"
ACTA SCAENOGRAPHICA VI, No.3,
pp.44-47. Not translated.
628.

"Jacobson: Creation of Illusion," PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October '65), p. 206. Nino Jacobson Theatre /
Windsor

Mountain

school/Sampton
purpose hall.

School,

Lenox,

Mass.

Associates/306/Abe

secondary

Feder/I. Multi643.

629.

Johnson,
Rus sell.
"Bui Iding
Costs-- Theatres
and
Auditoriums," (unpublished mS.: AD ;;126, presumably a
Bolt, Beranek & Newman designation) 6 pp. n.d.

630.

Juckel, Lothar. "Theoter-Kolloquium in Berlin," ARCHITEKTUR UNO WOHNFORM, Nr. 5 (1965), facing p. 233. 644.
Reports
morrow"

631.

634.

ARCHITECTURE (October

65), Special

Theatre opens at Lincoln
ARCHITECTURE (October
fine

the

performance

by

the

Center," PRO65), pp.57-58.
Lincoln

Center

shadowed as a work of art by the hall itself.'

Kahn,
Louis. "Remarks," PERSPECTA 9/10: THE
YALE ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL (1965), pp.304-5,
318-19. The architect discusses his planning of a fine

645.

"Saratoga: Two Performers in Hand are Worth Twenty in

in the Bush," PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October
'65), pp. 178-79. Archs. Vollmer Associates project a
5200-seat performing arts center, with outdoor lawn seating for on
imaginative

"Kennedy
Memorial Hall, Doublin, Ireland," ARCHITEKTUR UNO WOHNFORM, Nr. 5 (1965). pp. 250-53.
Kennedy Memorial Hall Doublin, Ireland / civic.l Raymond
McGrath /1820 and 464 J. Multi-purpose, primarily concert

additional 7,000. Stage arrangement is unfor theatre, but is projected primarily as a

"summer home for

"Kennedy: Riding with the Punches," PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE (October '65), pp. 188-89. Kennedy

0

ballet and orchestra company."

"Smith: Finally a Faculty Finds a Tongue," PROGRES·
SIVE ARCHITECTURE (October '65). pp. 174-75. Project
for a two-theatre complex, emphasizing limitations on on

Center, Washington, D.C.

all-girl student body. Yell-planned proscenium theatre
seats 450 without aisles. Smith College, Northampton,

"Knox: Turning the Table," PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October '65), pp. 190-91. Fine Arts Center at
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Front half of auditorium

Massachusetts.

647.

is a giant 66' turntable, which converts from compromised
proscenium form to compromised open form.

635.

"Repertory
GRESSIVE
"However

646
633.

PROGRESSIVE

Repertory Company may prove to be, it may well be over-

1966. Thinking

arts center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

632.

"The Profession and the Theatre; Some Current Books"
PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE
(October
65), ~p.
2d8-283. Reviews the following: ACTOR AND ARCHITECT
by Tyrone Guthrie et 01.; THE PERFORMING ARTS:
PROBLEMS
AND PROSPECTS by The Rockefeller
Brothers
Fund;
THEATRES
AND
AUDITORIUMS by
Harold Burris-Meyer and Edward C. Cole; PROSCEN IUM
AND SIGHT LINES by Richord Southern; PLANNING FOR
THE THEATRE by Ned A Bowman, William Coleman and
Glorianne Engel; THE OPEN STAGE by Hub Electric Co.;
THEATRE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY; ROOM AND
BUILDING ACOUSTICS AND NOISE ABATEMENT by
Willi Furrer; and IMAGES IN LIGHT FOR THE LIVING
THEATRE by Edward I. Kook.

"Theatres" issue, providing the year's best survey of
trends in the field, and work in progress. Editor Jan C.
Rowan
and Associate Editor C. Roy Smith deserve unqualified congratulations.

on a colloquium in Berlin on "Theatre for To·
and announces a project competition for young

architects and students, due May 30,
stimulated by Ford Foundation projects.

Pfau, Bernard. "Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf." ARCHITEKTUR & WOHNFORM, Nr. 5(1965). 00.254-57. Pfau's

"Living

City,"

ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN

"Texas Client Draws the Theetre," PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE {October '65), pp. 186-87. Good photographs of the experimental Theatre RoorT. at the University
of Texas, Austin.

(November

'65), pp. 569-70. Plans far exhibition tower with a concert

hall and theatre-in-the-round in Montreal. Chief archItect
is Thea Crosby.
636.

"Lycabettus

Theatre,"

648.

"Theatres on the March" PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October '65). p. 57. Round-number statistics on
the decline
centers.

ARCHI T ECTON I KI (Ju Iy-August

of

Broadway

and

decentralization

into

art

65), pp. 57-59. New mobile open-air structure in Greece,

seating 3,000.
637.

649.

"Tulsa: Palace of Culture," PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE {October '65). p. 208. Multi-purpose assembly hall
seating 17,500 or 1,200, designed by Edward Stone.

650.

Weigelt, Karl. "Klimaanlage f~; das Frankfurter Schauspielhous," ARCHITEKTUR UNO WOHNFORM, Nr. 5
(1965), pp. 170-72. Air conditionIng in Frankfurt's new

Lyndon,
Donlyn. "Single-Building Campus," ARCHITECTURAL FORUM (December '65). p. 72. Credits foro
theatre supposedly constructed at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver
B.C.,
Canada.
No illustrations. Architects

Duncan McNabb, David Logon & Harry Lee. Cost S660,OOO,
for 24,623 sq. ft. University apparently will not emphasize

civic

the theatre arts.

638.

McGuinness, William J.

'Mechanical Engineering Critique:

Environmental
Design for Theatres," PROGR ESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE {October 65). p. 242. Air conditioning
and

venti lating problems.

651.

theatre.

"Ypsilanti: Zeus Strikes Housewife with a Solid Vision,"
PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE (October '65). p. 177.
Project for a "Greek" thearre with interesting coblesuspended roof by' architect Harry Weese. Consultant:

Eldon Elder.
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