Staged: Architecture for Performance, Exhibition, and Fiction
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Edited by: Neil Spiller
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 and Sandra Youkhana; Bart-Jan Polman; Rahesh Ram; Jessica Reynolds; Stephen Rustow; Ashley Simone; Michael Szivos
Featured architects and artists: Atelier Manferdini; Charles Holland Architects; Metis; New Affiliates; Sam Jacob Studio; SOFTlab; You+Pea; STUFISH Entertainment Architects; Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum; TAKK; vPRR
Volume 95:1 June 2025
This AD 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.
Edited by Neil Spiller
New Affiliates Architecture, Beaux Arts Ball Installation, Brooklyn, New York, 2022
photo credit: Michael Vahrenwald/Esto
