Architecture

Written By Rachel Hann

My research on architecture stems from my PhD thesis on unrealized Utopian theatre architecture. I have since published articles on Adolphe Appia's Festspielhaus Hellerau as a site for dwelling in light and sound. I have also written on the spatial performativity of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's architectural practice, as well as presenting at several conferences on the notion of scenographic architecture (with a chapter devoted to this subject in my monograph).

Publications

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The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising A Lost Architectural Experiment
Articles, Scenography, digital practice, architecture, practice research
The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising A Lost Architectural Experiment
Articles, Scenography, digital practice, architecture, practice research

This chapter charts the findings of a research project that examined Meyerhold’s lost architectural experiment using computer-based 3D visualisation as a research method.

Articles, Scenography, digital practice, architecture, practice research
Modelling Kiesler’s Endless Theatre: approaches to paradata for heritage visualization
Articles, architecture, digital practice, practice research
Modelling Kiesler’s Endless Theatre: approaches to paradata for heritage visualization
Articles, architecture, digital practice, practice research

Frederick Kiesler’s unrealized Endless Theatre (1916–26) project is employed as a case study for articulating ‘paradata’ in heritage visualization.

Articles, architecture, digital practice, practice research
Blurred Architecture: Duration and performance in the work of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Articles, architecture
Blurred Architecture: Duration and performance in the work of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Articles, architecture

This article returns to Diller Scofidio + Renfro's temporary structure for the Swiss Expo in 2002. Blur Building, or Blur, underlines the occurrence of time through its continuously shifting structure and ephemeral state.

Articles, architecture
'The Theatre has Left the Building': Exploring the future of Theatre and Performance Architecture
architecture, short form
'The Theatre has Left the Building': Exploring the future of Theatre and Performance Architecture
architecture, short form
architecture, short form
Dwelling in light and sound: An intermedial site for digital opera
Articles, architecture, Scenography
Dwelling in light and sound: An intermedial site for digital opera
Articles, architecture, Scenography

To interrogate the role of architecture within intermedial digital opera, this article returns to a model of performance architecture as conceived by Swiss scenographer Adolphe Appia (1842–1928) and German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876–1950) for the Festspielhaus Hellerau (1911).

Articles, architecture, Scenography
Computer-based 3D Visualization for theatre research: Towards an understanding of unrealized Utopian theatre architecture from the 1920s and 1930s
PhD Thesis, digital practice, architecture, practice research
Computer-based 3D Visualization for theatre research: Towards an understanding of unrealized Utopian theatre architecture from the 1920s and 1930s
PhD Thesis, digital practice, architecture, practice research

This research project examines the dramaturgical implications of three historically significant unrealized theatres through the process of computer-based 3D visualization.

PhD Thesis, digital practice, architecture, practice research
Hellerau Returned
architecture, Open access, short form
Hellerau Returned
architecture, Open access, short form

The Festspielhaus Hellerau (1911) is recognized as the first purpose-built “studio “performance space. Scenographer Adolphe Appia and architect Heinrich Tessenow’s architectural legacy is once again an active site of experimentation following a2006 renovation. Moreover, the current artistic residency of William Forsythe’s dance company has continued Appia’s vision for afuture performance practice through an intermedial approach. Importantly, the body, within the work of Forsythe and Appia, remains alocus of artistic convergence as it encompasses the “open “architecture at Hellerau.

architecture, Open access, short form
Rachel Hann
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