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(2014) Modern architecture in theatre, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Autant and Lara's fifth theatrical genre framed moral questions for intellectual debate. Drawing on Jean de la Fontaine's fables and Montesquieu's essays, Autant wrote plays that established a scene and counter scene intended to spark Socratic discussion in an academic forum of professors and their students. Autant's sketch for a theatre building shows a frank, day-lit space that eschews theatric illusion, resembling a classroom more than a theatre, where discussion might develop. Within Autant and Lara's urban scheme, the University Theatre defined a civic space insulated from the market and from direct politics, where philosophical questions of morality and social values might be debated at the intellectual heart of the city.
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Read, G. (2014). Civic debate: university theatre, in Modern architecture in theatre, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101-116.
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