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• Title:Reviewing the performance : the design of the Sydney Opera House / Ken Woolley.
  
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• Variant Title:Design of the Sydney Opera House
  
• Author/Creator:Woolley, Ken, 1933-2015.
  
• Published/Created:Boorowa, NSW : The Watermark Press, 2010.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA1223.U88 W66 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Utzon, Jørn, 1918-2008.
  Sydney Opera House--History.
  Sydney Opera House--Design and construction.
  Theaters--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Design and construction.
  Architecture--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
  
• Description:203 pages : plans, illustrations, portraits ; 25 x 25 cm
  
• Summary:A calm and careful analysis has been made of the aspects of this remarkable building in Reviewing the Performance. In particular the problems of the brief, the difficulties of matching the design to the site and the immense problems encountered during construction. It also brings to light some startling revelations about seating and acoustic volumes.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780949284921 (pbk.)
  0949284920 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Overture
  Unseen, unsound
  World heritage listing
  Reviewing the performance
  Whose problems?
  Sense of purpose
  Concert halls, opera theatres and acoustics
  Ceremonial terrace
  Shell shock
  Glass houses
  Comparatively nuts
  Musical chairs
  What's in a name? Adaptable, convertible or dual purpose
  In Valhalla's halls
  Great sheets of ply
  Transcendental industrialisation, geometry and other mystifications
  Aesthetics of shelter
  Curtain.