The Model As Performance - Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture

The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present from a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm that explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. It provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition. For the undergraduate student, it provides a historical survey of the model, and to the postgraduate student, it opens up a new methodological approach. Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment. Case studies include Brunelleschi's dome models and Bel Geddes' Futurama , Mies van der Rohe's mock ups and Zumthor's atmospheric models, Anna Viebrock's life size boxes and Herzog & de Meuron's miniature styrofoam exhibits. The Model as Performance was shortlisted for the best Performance Design & Scenography Publication Award at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) 2019.

Product details

• Authors: Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen
• Assisted by: Stephen A. Di Benedetto (Editor of the series), McKinney Joslin (Editor of the series), Scott Palmer (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9781350095908
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09590-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 234 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Performance and Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure & design, DESIGN / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Other performing arts, Architectural structure and design