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.

Gehry theatre at bard roof.

The fisher center demonstrates bard s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Fisher center for the performing arts at new york s bard college in 2003. Likening the structure s stainless steel façade to a theatrical mask gehry finished the richard b. The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200 seat luma theater which houses bard s.

A founders room and roof. It took three years to build at a cost of more than 62 million. Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center. 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.

The center opened in april 2003. 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. Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry. The fisher center is 107 000 square feet.

Gehry worked in collaboration with acoustician yasuhisa toyota and a team of theater consultants. 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 larger of the two halls is a glass. And gehry technologies a software and services firm whose mission is to leverage technology to make.

Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr. 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.