Overview
Accomodating the Lively Arts distills decades of Martin Bloom's experience in the field. It presents an approach to the design and renovation of theatre spaces - from the practical aspects of location, size, and shape through a consideration of the three fundamental principles of theatre design: Focus, Platform, and Frame.Synopsis
Architect Martin Bloom has written Accommodating the Lively Arts...to encourage building and preservation of spaces that can nurture live performance. This book presents an approach to the design and renovation of theatre spaces - from the practical aspects of location, size, and shape, to the three fundamental principles of theatre design: Focus, Platform, and Frame.
Stage Directions
Accommodating the Lively Arts: An Architect's View is a delight. First, author and architect Martin Bloom sketches the essential issues for anyone involved in making decisions about the design or renovations of a performance facility. Second, he does so in a compact 112 pages, with the aid of only a few simple illustrations. Covering practical considerations such as location, size and shape, Bloom relates each to what he considers to be the three fundamental principles of theater design - focus, platform, and frame. --Highly recommended.