Description
Izenour ties detailed information on construction, lighting, acoustical structures, electro-mechanical-hydraulic systems, and stage controls to a wealthy history of technological developments from the invention of the proscenium stage in late Renaissance Italy to the contributions of our own time. The entire drawings are produced at the same scale for plan, transverse section, and point of view section. Theater Technology is a reference and source of ideas and inspiration for students, teachers, and practitioners in fields including acoustics, structural engineering, design, lighting, and architecture for the theater. For theater and architecture buffs it offers a detailed and illustrated history of the field and speculation on its future directions.