Gehry Theatre At Bard Roof

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.

Gehry theatre at bard roof.

The larger of the two halls is a glass. The fisher center is 107 000 square feet. The fisher center demonstrates bard s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Frank gehry has revealed a pair of performance venues designed to complement the grand a major mixed use development in downtown los angeles.

Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program. 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. Home is the fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry and located on the campus of bard college in new york s hudson valley. The center opened in april 2003.

Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003. It took three years to build at a cost of more than 62 million. Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b. Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr.

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 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. 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. Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center.