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Robert Davis Biography
Davis Crossfield Associates consults on the construction and
renovation of
theaters and other performing arts architecture.
Current work includes commercial, educational, and institutional
projects.
Projects Recently Opened
General services offered by Davis Crossfield Associates include:
- Site evaluation.
- Programming.
- Budgeting.
- Assistance in all phases of facility planning.
- Preparation of contract documents for stage equipment.
- Physical feasibility studies.
- Planning sightlines.
- Planning the stage configuration.
- Planning front-of-house facilities.
- Planning backstage facilities and dressing rooms.
- Planning technical spaces such as the box office, scenic,
costume,
prop,
and electric shops, rehearsal rooms, green rooms, loading dock,
and the
stage
door area.
Davis Crossfield Associates designs stage equipment according to the
standard architectural project phases. Stage equipment includes:
- Motorized and manual rigging.
- Stage lighting controls and instruments.
- Dance and ballet floors and other stage floor construction.
- Stage traps and elevators.
- Stage draperies and masking.
- Portable equipment.
In addition to providing contract documents and reviewing
construction we
provide the structural, electrical, and mechanical engineering
coordination
information necessary to incorporate stage systems into the building
design.
Emphasis is placed on:
- Constructive interaction with the design team.
- Exciting sightlines.
- Reasonable solutions.
- Consensus process.
- Keeping the audience and performers happy.
- Making sturdy gracious spaces.
- Providing artists with dependable professional tools.
- Making the building an excellent workplace.
Pictorial Diagrams of New York Theatres -
1883
Robert Davis - Bibliography
Articles on Theater Planning Topics
Our FAX number is (212) 927 8823.
Before 2003 our company name was Robert Davis Inc.
Before 2004 our address was 37 West 20th Street, New York NY 10011
and our
telephone number was (212) 242 0856.
Also see http://www.daviscrossfield.com/exit22.htm
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