Gehry Theatre At Bard Roof

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.

Gehry theatre at bard roof. 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. Sosnoff theater the fisher center was designed from the inside out beginning with the larger of the building s two theaters. And gehry technologies a software and services firm whose mission is to leverage technology to make. Last week we wrote about a new architectural masterpiece the dia.

The sosnoff theater seats approximately 800 people. Designed by gehry a new arts center is a performance in itself bard college complex marks a new stage for the luminary. Each year lab invites a number of artists and ensembles from the united states and abroad to be in. Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b.

Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry. A concert shell insert can be used to accommodate orchestral and chamber concerts. Beacon art museum in beacon n y. By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 2003.

It features a proscenium stage that accommodates opera music dance and theater. The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s. 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 in 1996 to design the performing arts center.

Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program. 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. Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr.