On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and choir, and several other music and drama programs, educational and recreational alike. For this purpose, a large catalog of automated elements – from the stage to the seats, from the theater machinery to the acoustic shells – results in a shoebox-type auditorium contained within an elegant prism clad in fluted aluminum and embraced by a protruding glazed gallery.