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Creativity and Conservation: Managing Significance at the Sydney Opera House

for large-scale work. conserved, and how change should be managed in the future. This paper examines how the dialogue with the original architect has been integrated into heritage-management strategies that guide both the dayto-day care of the building, as well as proposals for large-scale work. It also reflects on the challenges of marrying the World Heritage process for assessing significance...

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CO-EVOLUTION IN DESIGN A Case Study of the Sydney Opera House

A design process is traditionally viewed as a sequential process model from the formulation of the problem to the synthesis of solutions. Simon (1981) regards design as a state-space search where a problem leads to the solution. To be more practical, there are many versions of solution generated during design, where each current one is an improvement over the previous one. This kind of synthesi...

The digital opera house : an architecture for multimedia databases 67 68 69 70 71

This paper deals with the problem of preserving, organizing and retrieving information for a typical opera house environment. On the one hand, the live fruition of a music work in a theatre is an experience very difficult to be recreated in a different context or handed down to posterity; but, on the other hand, opera houses are important centers for cultural preservation and diffusion, and the...

Can Viable Systems Modelling Explain the Management Problems of London's Royal Opera House?

London's Royal Opera House has undertaken a much-needed redevelopment. The management of the operation has been problematic, bringing the House close to insolvency, and causing the resignation of many senior staff. This paper summarises these events, and earlier papers analysing them using systemic methods. It examines the organisation's structure using Beer's Viable Systems Model. The manageme...