Designing a small performing arts building that would work for both indoor recitals and outdoor concerts, Craig Hodgetts and Hsinming Fung drew inspiration from musical instruments. “We wanted a building in which performance and shape are inextricably linked,” explains Hodgetts, who trained as a musician before studying automotive design and then architecture. “So we looked at violins and guitars and how they work.”
Such explorations informed the architects’ strategy for the Wild Beast, a 3,400-square-foot facility at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, California.
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