DANCING BRICKS

摘要

Adesign team headed by RoTo Architects, Los Angeles, took a new angle on an old masonry technique to keep outdoor sound from entering the La Jolla (Calif.) Playhouses newest theater. Their solution: A unique masonry wall atop the buildings roof that uses age-old corbelling techniques to curve in and out, slanting nine feet out of plumb. "We didn't want conventional movement of brick," says Michael Rotondi, principal at RoTo Architects, who designed the 53,000-sf theater. "Brick doesn't have to hold precise vertical lines."