Fisher center for the performing arts designed by the architect frank gehry.
Gehry theatre at bard roof.
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.
Gehry in 1996 to design the performing arts center.
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.
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.
In the shifting center moves into line of fire.
It took three years to build at a cost of more than 62 million.
A founders room and roof.
Leon botstein the president of bard as well as the music director and principal conductor of the american symphony orchestra commissioned mr.
The theater program is located in the world class richard b.
Theater and performance are intrinsically collaborative art forms and collaboration and devised theater making are at the heart of bard s program.
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 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.
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.
By robert campbell globe correspondent 8 9 2003.
Gehry worked in collaboration with acoustician yasuhisa toyota and a team of theater consultants.
The fisher center demonstrates bard s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity.
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.