Gehry Theatre At Bard Roof

Frank gehry has revealed a pair of performance venues designed to complement the grand a major mixed use development in downtown los angeles.

Gehry theatre at bard roof.

The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s. Gehry worked in collaboration with acoustician yasuhisa toyota and a team of theater consultants. Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr. Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b.

Frank gehry is the founder of los angeles based gehry partners llp a full service architectural firm with extensive experience in the design and construction of academic museum theatre performance and commercial projects around the world. The architect chose brushed stainless steel for the exterior of this 2003 music center so that the sculptural building would reflect light and color from the pastural landscape of new york s hudson valley. The fisher center is 107 000 square feet. The sosnoff theater an intimate 900 seat theater with an orchestra parterre and two balcony sections features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by yasuhisa toyota including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.

In many ways the relatively tiny fisher center for the performing arts at bard college is what many of us think of as gehry made. Gehry s plan calls for a glass enclosed 1 100 seat concert hall on one end plus a boxy 700 seat theater for dance chamber opera and experimental performance work. Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry. A founders room and roof.

The center opened in april 2003. The fisher center demonstrates bard s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center. And gehry technologies a software and services firm whose mission is to leverage technology to make.

Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program. Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003.