Reconstructing Theatre Architecture: The Developing Process of the Modern Space for the Show (The Urban Book Series)

Acknowledgments
Presentation The Theatre as an Urban Knotting  by Giuseppe Strappa
Introduction
	Reading Guide
About This Book
Contents
List of Figures
Part I The Developing Process of the Space for the Show
1 Urban Knots as Space and Representation
	1.1 The Palladian Education by Aldo Rossi
	1.2 Fencing and Covering
	1.3 Synchronic Variants: Central Stage and Circular Theatre
	1.4 Summary
	References
2 The Theatrical Organism
	2.1 Temporarines and Permanency of the Features of the Theatre Space
	2.2 The Representation of the Renaissance and Baroque Festival References
	2.3 Summary
	References
3 Theatre as Solidification
	3.1 Reinventing Classical Theatre
	3.2 Vitruvius as a Source of Modern Constructive Pragmatism
	3.3 The Court Theatre of Mantua and the Farnese Theatre of Parma Towards Modern Theatre
	3.4 Summary
	References
4 Theatre as Recast
	4.1 Old and New Theatres in Mantua
	4.2 Wonderful Anticipations and Surprising Delays by an Author/Reader: Fabrizio Carini Motta
	4.3 A City Interior: The Disguised Theatre by Adolfo Natalini
	4.4 Summary
	References
5 Theatre as Urban Knot
	5.1 Public Theatre with Boxes, Italian Theatre
	5.2 The Synchronic Variant of Court and Academic Theatre
	5.3 Main Influences, Inbound and Outbound, Towards the European Context
	5.4 The Specialization of Building Types
	5.5 Summary
	References
6 The Evolution of Theatre Features
	6.1 A Theatre as an Urban Knot Grafted in the Historical Fabric
	6.2 From the Graft of the New to the Recovery of the Existing
	6.3 Scenography as “Architecture of the Theatre Space”
	6.4 Summary
	References
Conclusions
Apparatuses
Literature
Documents
Images
Glossary
List of Historical Theatres in Italy
References