AKSONOMETRII. ТЕАТРОВЕШАЛКО. Theory. scholars. STRUKTURAS CONCEPTUAL KONSTRUKT. Урбано эко. Best 'starchitect'-built theaters. Moshe Safdie, the architect behind Kansas City's Muriel Kauffman Theatre, has described the building as "festive and exuberant.
" 1601 Broadway; 816-994-7200; kauffmancenter.org. César Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects designed this flexible, black-box theater, as well as the entire Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County that houses it. 1300 Biscayne Blvd.; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org. Pritzker Prize--winning architect Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theater has a twilight-blue metal façade that blends with the evening sky, highlighting images of Guthrie productions screen-printed directly onto the façade on steel panels. 818 S. 2nd St.; 612-377-2224; guthrietheater.org. Project Japan: Metabolism Talks By Rem Koolhaas & Hans Ulrich Obrist. Photo ©Taschen GmbHBetween 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism - the first non-western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan's postwar miracle.
"Architecture is a deeply contradictory profession. Its actions intersect with a huge range of unrelated domains; at the same time - its essence to build - is so complex, that it requires extreme focus and concentration.