Contemporary Theatre Architecture

Book excerpt: For some years Ned Bowman compiled his bibliography on theater architecture. This is the first publication of the complete bibliography to 1965. The addition of a representative selection of photos and plans of contemporary theaters, grouped and analyzed by Maxwell Silverman, makes this a book of record and an illustrated report on trends in theater architecture over the two decades following WW2 which reached culmination at Lincoln Center in NYC. This book is of great use to architects, designers, directors, and planners of new theater bldgs., municipal or univ. cultural arts centers, as well as educators, municipal and state governments, fdns., and other benefactors of new theater bldgs.