Theatre buildings: a design guide Association of British Theatre Technicians
Publisher: Routledge

These principals are integral at all levels of designing and planning. Filmed Oct 2009 • Posted Jan 2010 • TEDxSMU. ϿThe designation comes The Modern Theatre building combines a student residence hall, theater and gallery in a building that incorporates the sustainability philosophy that has earned Suffolk University a place in the Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green Colleges. Three practical principals guide the discipline: durability, utility, and aesthetics. It keeps the undesirable people from standing in front of the first floor window. Change and artistic risk is the life blood of our theatre and so it should be with our theatre buildings too. Boston, MA Suffolk University's Modern Theatre residence hall project has earned a LEED Silver Rating in acknowledgment of its sustainable design, construction and operation. Don't shoot the messenger but that's the reality. Just follow the guidelines outlined under our Creative Commons license. Joshua Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design process, the results can be spectacular. Indeed, the sudden loss of its home can be genuinely galvanising for a theatre. In his talk, he walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly Theater Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself.