Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself

[11889music]

This level of innovation to the medium of theatrical performance is the most remarkable change since Theatre-in-the-round

[allema1]

Great speaker

[jahrleriksen]

I love the way YouTube allows the user to rate comments these days.

[uexplorer]

Witness works of art within a work of art. Sounds good.

[ANDjjela]

to experience the theatre with Dallas: the ancient greeks did that too!!! (with Greece in the background). I think that's amazing.

[Rhuthmos]

I have the exact same belt...

[nextlevelz]

@Rhuthmos the worst thing in the video was the belt

[levinack]

I'm sure they work with a lot of engineers, the idea is just that the architect informs himself about more than the initial concept. Which isn't a bad idea.

(quosmo1, is your comment related to the fact that this guy is intelligent, successful and good looking?)

[ingenesist]

On the other hand, Professional Engineers are socially inept and fail to organize their own profession - as architects have been quite successful at doing.

BTW; If I cited McBeth, Human Copulation, and "dangling bits" in a fire suppression system design, I wouldn't expect to find myself speaking at TED

[quosmo1]

yeah this guy really seems up himself

[audiowiz]

Architects use such pompous terms for really basic things. The rake, thrust....really? You just rotated and moved the seats...

[Kebralize]

@audiowiz

To remind ourselves about the concept, thats why we give it a name, or coin a name on it.

[PvPWithDDS]

@audiowiz Actually rake and thrust are theatre terms - possibly just as pompus ;)

[johnrocketman]

absolutely awesome, great job!!!!!!!!!!!

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[omegavalerius]

If you want to make execution a job for the architect be my guest. It will only add another 15 years to the study schedule. If you think of how much engineering goes into a building of any important size you will quickly notice that nobody can know everything to the detail required about the process. It's like asking doctors to know everything about every field related to medicine.

[haolekillah]

they should be able to do that. stop being negative and trying to lower the bar. try raising it

[omegavalerius]

You don't seem to have any understanding how much engineering goes into a sizable building.

[2008Raw2008]

this really is not TED quality. this is like intro to architecture, a lecture to high school students

[freesk8]

Howard Roark of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" at 1:54. One of the greatest architects in fiction.

[prayfortruejustice]

Try again: ARE ARCHITECTS RESPONSIBLE FOR NEARLY HALF OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION?

from Christopher Hawthorne, Metropolis, Assessments of US energy consumption traditionally: industry (35 %), transportation (27 %), residential (21 %), and commercial (17 %) By combining the residential and commercial sectors, and then adding the portion of the industry sector that goes to the construction and operation of industrial bldgs, he attributes 48% of total US energy consumption to the architectural sector.

[P00P0STER0US]

Brilliant work, fabulous.

[shadman1911]

Im so creative i made a building with holes and suspended curtains and I do methafors...

[kontekzt]

...and post hilarious comments on youtube...

[Fensterplaetzchen]

Lego!

[Bullonieful]

@Uncerten Dallas, Texas.

[Uncerten]

When he said Dallas, i kept thinking Dallas Green? Where?

[prayfortruejustice]

I believe architects more are directly responsible for wasting more energy and seeding economic waste than any other discipline.

[miltyu97]

I believe greed and self-interest are directly responsible for wasting more energy and seeding economic waste than any other single reason.

[TheMisterNiggles]

@miltyu97 ...and you live in the lap of modern luxury in the western world as a result of the same "vices." Can you name any ground-breaking innovations that were spawned from communism or communal cultures that aim to eliminate these "vices?" I can't stand people who spew generic, P.C. garbage like this. How about instead of answering my first question, you tell me one person that doesn't act out of "self-interest" and how you can stop this natural, intuitive urge?

[timg455]

fuckin hippy

[GnosticDjinn]

War generals.

[prayfortruejustice]

hmmm... yes.

[insatyr08]

@prayfortruejustice More so than businessmen? It is my opinion that businessmen offer nothing but a link between a service/product and its implementation into the capitalist system.

[2008Raw2008]

have to disagree, that would be civil engineers

[Heartofadeadpoet]

@2008Raw2008 Definitely civil engineers.

[mebirdo]

That was so wordy, it was hard to follow :/ and I'm still not quite sure what they built exactly.

Plus, I rather liked the 'horrible little building' at the start :P

[LokiClock]

Finally, a decent architect on these here TEDs.

[xylyze]

5 stars!

[700]

the triumph of substance over form. i dont like it.

[timeoutformike]

Woot?