Architectural spaces and sequences are significantly influenced by their effective staging. The task of capturing, formulating, analyzing, and preparing the repertoire of such stagings for application in design is the focus of spatial dramaturgy. This book presents spatial dramaturgy in four major parts: The archetypal features of spatial stagings can be vividly developed through three assembly houses of the early modern period in Venice. From the perspective of theater, film, music, and theory, architecture-relevant dramaturgical knowledge is provided. Detailed analyses open a new perspective on exemplary buildings of contemporary architecture—from Scharoun's Berlin Philharmonic to Rem Koolhaas's IIT Student Center in Chicago, a swimming pool by Jean Nouvel, and a kindergarten near Zurich by L3P Architekten.