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Grafton Architects: Solstice Arts Center and the Problem of Theater Design

The traditional theater stagehouse, with its flies, catwalks, upstage, backdrops, battens, wings and traps certainly poses an aesthetic and formal issue for architects, often characterized typologically by a tall, dark, and oftentimes awkward volume shoved out of the top of the building.

Grafton Architects tackle the problem of tradtional theater design here…