"Notes and Queries … " – That Wren drawing. Issue 1 (3rd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fergusson Baugh, Cat
• Is Part Of: Theatre and performance design. Volume 7:Issue 1/2(2021)
• Page Start: 24
• Page End: 38
• Publication Date: 2021-04-03
• Subjects: Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Periodicals; Drama -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; 792
• DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2021.1935625
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2332-2551

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article I will expand on work presented in 'Haptic Insights: Model Making as Historical Methodology' (Fergusson Baugh 2018 ) and demonstrate the value of the methodologies proposed there on a case study reconstruction of the second Drury Lane theatre (1674) initially prepared for the THEATRON project. I will explore the history of this building through a procedural engagement with source material and the development of a virtual model. I will also explore how an apparently inconsequential inconsistency in the section can account for Langhans, Mulling and Koenig's disagreement (and resolve which of them was right), and how a process of computer modelling suggests a haptic insight into a more human history of a drawing that has been forcefully torn up but retained and carefully conserved for 350 years.