Gehry Theatre At Bard Roof

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Gehry theatre at bard roof. By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 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. The center opened in april 2003. 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.

Bounded by hope street grand avenue and 1st and 2nd streets it seats 2 265 people and serves among other purposes as the home of the los angeles philharmonic orchestra and the los. Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program. Designed by gehry a new arts center is a performance in itself bard college complex marks a new stage for the luminary. The fisher center is 107 000 square feet.

Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry. Though the 1 200 student bard college had been talking about building a new performing center since 1972 it was only four years ago that gehry was. It took three years to build at a cost of more than 62 million. 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 theater program is located in the world class richard b. 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 worked in collaboration with acoustician yasuhisa toyota and a team of theater consultants. Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr.

The fisher center demonstrates bard s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Fisher center for the performing arts designed by the architect frank gehry.