MARIUCA BRANCOVEANU DESIGN LLC

Mariuca Brancoveanu Design provided a complex range of services from seating and nightlines to interior design decoration for new venues to renovations or historical restoration projects.

Mariuca Brancoveanu holds a Master Degree in Graphic Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bucharest, Romania.
The daughter of a prominent Romanian scenic and costume designer of the National Opera of Bucharest, Mrs. Brancoveanu has always been involved in opera, ballet and theatre and collaborated with her mother on a number of projects.
In Bucharest she worked as a designer and illustrator for numerous magazines and publishing houses and she exhibited her art work in personal and group shows.

In this country where she settled in 1980, she worked as a designer and illustrator in both LA and Palo Alto.
In 1981 she joined Roger Morgan Studio, a theatre design firm where she was a key staff member for almost 20 years and the Director of Interior Design.


Mariuca Brancoveanu Design Studio had projects that ranged from a 16,000 outdoor seat auditorium to a 60 seat recital chamber music space through a whole range of performance and public assembly venues, from Broadway theaters, resident theaters, colleges to symphony halls.

Mariuca Brancoveanu is considered one of our country’s foremost authority in development os seating and sight lines.

Mariuca Brancoveanu provided specific customized information that was communicated through elaborate had drawn plans or sections, computer generated renderings or thumbnail sketches.
The precise analysis of sight lines that Mariuca Brancoveanu produced took computerized information one step further and added subjective elements particular to each venue, based on over three decades of expertise.


SEATING AND SIGHTLINES

Mariuca Brancoveanu Design welcomed  the challenge of finding variations of well established programmatic themes, while keeping with the latest requirements of the ADA and working in close relationship with client and architect.
Among the chief concerns were:
creating a strong sense of comfort, intimacy and interest and responding to the aesthetic / market ability goals of the project
Responding with practical and ingenious design solutions
Establishing original seating layouts and sight lines or adapting existing spaces to the latest ADA requirements resulting in an optimized circulation pattern

1981-2001
Among the representative projects at Sachs Morgan Studio:

INTERIOR DESIGN

Mariuca Brancoveanu’s’s goal was to create se strong sense of space where the interior design becomes an intrinsic part of the architecture.
Every element was custom designed by MB from the design of the carpet, drapery, lighting fixtures, seats to mosaic floors.


Brooks Atkinson - NYC - 2000
Pantages Theatre - Los Angeles, CA - 2000
Lunt Fontanne Theatre - NYC - 2000
Palace Theatre - NYC - 2000
Ford Center for the Performing Arts - NYC - 1999  (renamed the Hilton than The Lyric)
Oriental Theatre (renamed James M. Nederlander Theatre) - Chicago, IL - 1998
Kennedy Center Concert Hall - Washington DC - 1998
Fulton Opera House - Lancaster, PA - 1996
Walter Kerr Theatre - NYC - 1995

STATING LAYOUTS AND SIGHT LINE STUDIES

National Museum of American Indian - Washington DC - 2001
    Architect: Polshek Partnership and Tobey and Davis
Trinity Repertoire Theatre - Providence, RI - 2001
    Architect: Harry Holzman Pfeiffer
Strand Theatre - York, PA - 2001
    Architect: van Dijk Pace Leskosky
Kennedy Center Concert Hall - Washington DC - 2000
    Architect: Quinn Evans Architects
Milton Hershey School - Hershey, PA - 2000
    Architect: Perry Dean Rogers
Cleveland State Concert Hall and Recital Hall - Cleveland, OH - 1996
    Architect: van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects
Warner Theatre = Washington DC - 1995
    Architect: Pei Cobb Freed
Minskoff Theatre - NYC - 1994
    Owner: The Nederlander Organization
Temple Hoyne Buell Auditorium - Dancer, CO - 1992
    Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle and van Dijk Westlake
Kennedy Center Opera House - Washington DC - 1995
    Architect: Quinn Evans Architects
Walter Kerr Theatre - NYC - 1995
    Owner: Jujamcyn Organization
Shanghai Center Theatre - Shanghai, China - 1990
    Architect: John Portman & Assoc
Frank Moody Center - Tuscaloosa, AL - 1989

Cain Park Amphitheatre - Cleveland Heights, OH - 1990
    Architect: van Dijk Pace Westlake
Big Apple Circus - NYC - 1987
    Architect: Rotzheid, Keiserman, Thomson & Bee
Marquis Theatre - NYC - 1986
    Architect: John Portman & Asssociates
Riverband Pavilion - Cincinnati, OH - 1984
    Architect: Michael Graves