SHAW CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

 
 
 
 
 

Oragami-style Performing Arts Building for a University Campus

 
 
 

For Graceland University, the Shaw Center presented an opportunity transform an existing aging and dour music and drama building.  With the addition of a new Black Box Theatre, Recital Hall, Art Gallery, Lobby/Event space and renovation of the existing Proscenium Theater and Movement Classroom, this performing arts building gets a new lease on life.  The theater and recital hall bracket the lobby in a way that creates an outdoor porch and forms a new quadrangle as the center of campus life.  Architectural expression is abstracted from the reduction of form and articulation of the administration building, the first building on campus and a much revered architectural icon.

 
 
 

Location: Graceland University, Lamoni, IA

images courtesy of Gould Evans Associates

Work presented as Project Manager/Project Designer in association with Gould Evans Associates, Kansas City