Gehry Theatre At Bard Roof

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.

Gehry theatre at bard roof.

A founders room and roof. Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program. It took three years to build at a cost of more than 62 million. Students study and perform in the landmark fisher center for the performing arts designed by frank gehry.

The theater program is located in the world class richard b. The fisher center is 107 000 square feet. Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr. Gehry worked in collaboration with acoustician yasuhisa toyota and a team of theater consultants.

In the shifting center moves into line of fire. 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. By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 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. Fisher center for the performing arts designed by the architect frank gehry. Designed by gehry a new arts center is a performance in itself bard college complex marks a new stage for the luminary. The walt disney concert hall at 111 south grand avenue in downtown los angeles california is the fourth hall of the los angeles music center and was designed by frank gehry it opened on october 24 2003.

The fisher center demonstrates bard s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center.