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Interior of Germantown Friends School Early Childhood Program designed by MGA Partners, showing classroom spaces through glass doors with large orange number ‘2’ graphics.

Early Childhood Program

Germantown Friends School

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Exterior view of the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Philadelphia designed by MGA Partners, featuring athletic fields and community recreation spaces under a blue sky.

Salvation Army Kroc Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Modern academic building at The Haverford School designed by MGA Partners, with glass façades and students playing soccer on an adjacent athletic field.

Upper School

The Haverford School

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Area

117,000 sf new construction
38,400 sf renovation

In the Media

Legends Lured to Indiana University, Variety Magazine

Students walking in and out of the Entrance

Awards for Design Excellence
AIA Indianapolis
AIA Philadelphia
AIA Indiana

The original backstage and flyloft areas are creatively re-used for a studio theatre, movement studio, and scene shop.  

Dynamic practice in the movement studio
Interior of the studio theater (black box) showing flexible seating risers, overhead lighting grids, and a dark, neutral color scheme for versatile performance setups.
Interior photograph of the scene shop
Architectural section

The obsolete 1938-era theatre department is transformed into a high-tech cinema for scholarly research and exhibition of modern, traditional, and silent films. 

Side view of the cinema

On the east side of the new building, the primary performance spaces—a 450-seat proscenium theater, and a 250-seat experimental theater—are unified with a single lobby that faces Jordan Avenue. 

Interior photograph of the experimental theater
The scene shop at Indiana University
Lobby of the Theatre & Drama Center at Indiana University
The side of the building relates to the landscape of the campus.

The complex is composed of two architectural expressions. One creates a public presence for the new facilities, and a second relates to the landscape of the campus.

Exterior view of the Indiana University Cinema and Theater building, featuring a limestone facade and a modern glass entrance reflecting the surrounding campus.

The flyloft of the original theatre, adjacent to the University’s main auditorium with the new Theatre & Drama Center just beyond, provides the link for the complex. Phase II of the Masterplan finally unified these venues.

An exploded axonometric diagram highlighting the different structural volumes of the complex, including the original theater, new additions, and connecting pathways.
Interior view of the main theater

Theatre & Drama Center
Indiana University

The project combines three distinct programs that significantly contribute to Indiana University’s reputation as a center for arts and culture. These are the acclaimed Department of Theatre & Drama, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and the newly formed IU Cinema. The site forms part of the University’s performing arts precinct of the campus, alongside the Indiana University Auditorium and the Musical Arts Center. The site also holds an important position in the landscape, linking paths from the student residence halls to the academic core and to Showalter Fountain, a prominent campus place.

A masterplan to create a comprehensive performing arts precinct with significant new, modified, and repurposed venues was completed in several phases, including new construction and renovation.

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