Outdoor Theaters, 1917 PDF Download

Author: Frank A. Waugh
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267985685
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
Excerpt from Outdoor Theaters, 1917: The Design, Construction and Use of Open-Air Auditoriums The stage is tangent to the circular Open orches tra about which the tiers are disposed, and stands five feet and a half above it. It is a hundred and fifty feet in length, twenty-eight feet deep, and backed by a massive wall forty-two feet in height. This noble wall, enriched with sixteen columns and with stylobate and entablature in full Doric de tail, represents a palace or temple front. It is pierced by a great central doorway, flanked by smaller openings, and with a portal as well in each of the return walls. The theater is built of con crete, the stage wall being finished by hand in Port land cement. The theater has proved of a great practical use fulness as a place of assemblage for the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.