sightlines.usitt.org: What started as an architecture class project – to design a theatre for their campus – ended with five students from North Dakota State University winning USITT’s 2013 Ideal Theatre Student Design Competition.
The Architechnitions – third-year NDSU architecture students Ryan Linne, Mshail Ahmed, Britten Churchill, and Dennis Bukowski, and theatre student Ben Wetzel – won the Commissioner’s Award at the 2013 USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for their redesign of NDSU’s Askanase Hall into the Askanase Theatre.
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Contests like this are great ways to get the creative ideas from my generation out onto paper as an idea in order to push the boundaries of what we believe now to be the limits. These students from North Dakota and their architecture project have now done something great, and hopefully they will go on to achieve greatness in the future. This contest is a great way to encourage our minds towards bettering the community.
This contest presented a great way to redesign a theatre. Often, theatres are designed by outside architects who know little about what makes a good theatre building. Having the collaboration between theatre students and architecture students bring in the best of both worlds. Additionally, the contest form of the redesign fosters creativity and an ultimately better design.
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