The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present from a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm that explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. It provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition. For the undergraduate student, it provides a historical survey of the model, and to the postgraduate student, it opens up a new methodological approach.
Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment. Case studies include Brunelleschi's dome models and Bel Geddes' Futurama, Mies van der Rohe's mock ups and Zumthor's atmospheric models, Anna Viebrock's life size boxes and Herzog & de Meuron's miniature styrofoam exhibits.
Recenzijas
The achievement of The Model as Performance is to shift thinking on the spatial model from representational concerns (the resemblance of the model to what it copies or projects) to interactional concerns (how models and our performative relations with them actively participate in what Thea and Lawrence call the co-construction of reality)...But this is not just an academic book. Its nuanced, rigorous widening of the category of the model will no doubt be explored in studio pedagogy and studio practice. * U-Mag *
Papildus informācija
This book examines the history and development of the physical scale model in theatre and architecture from the Renaissance to the present and argues the models capacity to stage space and enable performance.
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| Introduction |
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1 The Model as Object and Idea |
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Staging space: The autonomous model |
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Performing research: The processes of modelling |
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Making worlds: The emergence of the model |
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2 Staging Politics and Knowledge through the Model |
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Model and system: Staging the city |
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Model and cosmos: Performing the theatres of knowledge |
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Model theatre and model stage: Architecture as laboratory and exhibit |
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Model, miniature and machine: Staging the theatre of nature |
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3 Performing Architecture: Edward Gordon Craig and the Model Stage |
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Model and screen: Abstraction on the stage |
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Model and experiment: Mobilizing the stage |
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4 Staging the Future: The Model as Performance of Inhabitation |
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Model and domesticity: Staging the new typologies |
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Model and mobility: Staging America's urban future |
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Model and Marshall Plan: Staging the Cold War |
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Model and discourse: Staging the 1:1 |
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Model and doppelganger: Staging identity and interpretation |
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5 Performing the Past: The Full-Scale Model and Mock Up |
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Model and nation: The large and full-scale model as propaganda tool |
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Model and memory: Venetian theatres of the world |
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Model and reality: Bert Neumann's mock ups as an imitation of life |
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6 Staging the White Cube: The Autonomous Model as a Performance of Space |
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Model and exhibition: Performing architecture |
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Model and exhibition: Performing scenography |
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| Notes |
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| References |
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| About the Authors |
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| Index |
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Thea Brejzek is Professor for Spatial Theory at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and an internationally recognised expert in scenography. In 2011, she was the founding Curator for Theory at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space (PQ). Recently, she has been a Visiting Professor at Bartlett School of Architecture, UK, and has been appointed to the international scientific advisory board of the Bauhaus, Dessau.
Lawrence Wallen is Professor and Head of School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. From 200112 he was Professor of Scenography at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. A trained visual artist and architect, his research and practice is concerned with representation of space, spatial narative and postcolonial readings of landscape.
