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.
Gehry theatre at bard roof.
The sosnoff theater seats approximately 800 people.
The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s.
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.
By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 2003.
Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program.
Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b.
A concert shell insert can be used to accommodate orchestral and chamber concerts.
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.
Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003.
Sosnoff theater the fisher center was designed from the inside out beginning with the larger of the building s two theaters.
It features a proscenium stage that accommodates opera music dance and theater.
Designed by gehry a new arts center is a performance in itself bard college complex marks a new stage for the luminary.
Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr.
Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center.
Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry.
Beacon art museum in beacon n y.
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.
Live arts bard lab the fisher center s residency and commissioning program is a laboratory for professional artists in theater dance and performance to test ideas and develop new projects many of which premiere at the fisher center.
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