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Live architecture: the design of portable buildings for live music performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Robert Kronenburg
Affiliation:
Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, l69 7ZN, UK, [email protected]

Extract

On 15 August 1965, The Beatles performed before more than 55,600 fans at Shea Stadium, New York, USA. In what was by far the biggest event to date of its type, that evening a dramatic revelation of the commercial possibilities of popular music took place, and changed the nature of the music business for ever. Simultaneously, despite using more powerful amplification than had been used before, the virtually non-existent connection between the musicians and their audience revealed the enormous technical and architectural challenges of large-scale concerts. Though this concert took place in a permanent building structure, the equipment it was hoped would temporarily alter its use for performance purposes was portable. That it was clearly inadequate for this task reinforced the need for new mobile facilities that would do the job better [1, 2].

Type
design
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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