Victoria Newhouse will give a multimedia presentation of unconventional spaces that are competing with traditional opera houses and concert halls for classical music performances. She will review the liabilities of these new performance spaces—the cost of construction, maintenance and programming, difficulty in attracting audiences, etc. The talk will be followed by a discussion of the pros and cons of non-purpose built theaters.
About the Speaker
Victoria Newhouse is an independent scholar who established the Architectural History Foundation, a non-profit publisher of scholarly books in this field, which operated from 1978 until 1994. Her book publications include Wallace K. Harrison: Architect (1989), Towards a New Museum (1998, expanded edition 2006), Art and the Power of Placement (2005), and Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls (2012). Newhouse served as a juror for the Pritzker Prize from 2005 to 2008; she is a frequent contributor to Architectural Record.
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