### structure | building | temple:

Hindu temple
* Most Hindu temples have many shrines, each of which is devoted to a divinity.
* are known after the chief deity of the temple.
* hold annual festivals commemorating events in the lives of the divinities.

### structure | building | temple:

Pagoda
* Most pagodas are built for religious purposes.
  * A 'pagoda' is any kind of tower with multiple eaves. They are common in eastern and southeastern Asia. Most pagodas are built for religious purposes. They are usually Buddhist. Some are used as Taoist temples. The modern design for pagodas comes from the stupas of ancient Nepal.'The Columbia Encyclopedia', Sixth Edition. Columbia University Press. This kind of architecture has spread across Asia, taking on many differences as details specific to different regions are made a part of the overall design.'The Evolution of Indian Stupa Architecture in East Asia'.
* are among the most ubiquitous structures throughout the Buddhist world
  - towers
* create relaxing and covered eating areas.

### structure | building:

Theater
* are buildings
  - businesses encountering mergers and fierce competition in the best markets
  - capable of closing doors
  - large buildings
* are located in cities
  - downtowns
  - malls
  - movies
  - operas
  - schools
  - shopping malls
  - playing games
  - public places
  - sites
* are used for actors
  - watching
* collaborative art form.
* dialog between performance and audience.
* form of communication art.
* have roofs
  - walls
* includes bases
  - boilers
  - box offices
  - ceilings
  - courtyards
  - doorknobs
  - elevator cars
  - elevators
  - floors
  - foundation stones
  - foyers
  - hinges
  - interior doors
  - orchestra pits
  - readsides
  - right stages
  - roof peaks
  - room light
  - sections
  - stage rights
  - staircases
  - storeys
* includes theater curtains
* includes ticket booths
  - window frames
  - windowpanes
* involves people of all ages from childhood to adulthood.
* is also a way of educating the spirit as well as the intellect.
* is an art form which focuses on a product, a play production for an audience
  - existential art form
  - illusion of life, allowing viewers to see themselves from new points of view
  - important part of human life
  - based on life
  - essential to the ecology of being human
  - live art
  - one of the few art forms that combine music and language and drama and visuals
  - real people coming together and communicating with each other - without a keyboard
* is the anchovy of the arts
  - art form which brings together all the arts
  - backbone of acting
  - study of performance done in front of live audiences
  - theater, with the right makeup and director
* laboratory in which experiments in ideas and techniques occur.
* performing art, designed for a live audience.
* refers to works on drama as acted on the stage.
* shared human experience.
* tool for developing children's reading comprehension skills.

### structure | building | theater:

Improvisational theater
* emerges as the animals begin to speak to each other.
* involves performing without a script.

### structure | building | theatre:

Home theater
* are theaters.
  * A 'home theater' or 'home theatre' theater built in a home. Home theaters are designed to be like watching a movie at a movie theatre.

Movie theater
* are business
  - date factories
  - popcorn
* have listening devices.

Musical theatre
* celebration of the human experience.
* queens are an accepted part of the basic gay stereotype.
* real crystallization of communication, physical and vocal.

Street theatre
* can accompany speeches, demonstrations, rallies and leafleting.
* reclamation of our public spaces and our community.

Vernacular building
* are ones built directly from experience with other buildings.
* is the traditional and natural way by which communities house themselves.