Staged Architecture for Performance, Exhibition and Fiction

This AD explores the full spectrum of spatial propositions that architects can bring to staging events, the work featured is theatrical and exuberant, and the product of many collaborative architectural voices.

Staged focuses on how architectural skills are deployed in entertainment to communicate design and form the backdrops for stories to play out. It includes articles on installations, exhibition designs, entertainment architecture, narrative projects, speculations on future human identities, video gaming, and memorial tombs—an international plethora of staged examples of how architectural thinking can bring vitality to situations not usually perceived to be within the realms of traditional practice. The issue engages with popular culture, fictions, art, performance, technology, and architectural history and theory. 

Exploring the full spectrum of spatial propositions that architects can bring to staging events, the work featured is theatrical and exuberant and the product of many collaborative architectural voices, including curators, artists, performers, digital intelligences, fabricators, and writers.

Volume 95: Issue 1
156 pages - 8.5” x 11”

Editors: ASHLEY SIMONE AND NEIL SPILLER

Featured architects and artists: ATELIER MANFERDINI, CHARLES HOLLAND ARCHITECTS, FREDERICK KIESLER, METIS, NEW AFFILIATES, SAM JACOB STUDIO, SOFTLAB, STUFISH, PAMELA PHATSIMO SUNSTRUM, TAKK, VPRR, MARK WASIUTA, AND YOU+PEA

Contributors: PETER J BALDWIN, MARK BURRY, LEAH KELLY, JAFFER KOLB, ADRIAN HAWKER, CHARLES HOLLAND, OWEN HOPKINS, ELENA MANFERDINI, EVA MENUHIN, MARK MORRIS, LUKE CASPER PEARSON, BART-JAN POLMAN, RAHESH RAM, JESSICA REYNOLDS, STEPHEN RUSTOW, ASHLEY SIMONE, NEIL SPILLER, MICHAEL SZIVOS, AND SANDRA YOUKHANA 

Keywords: STAGE, EXHIBITION, PERFORMANCE, SHOW, VIDEO GAMING, FICTION, TOMB, MAUSOLEUM, GORMENGHAST, NARRATIVE.