Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation

Bosma, Koos; Bouman, Mark J.; Brodherson, David; Bruegmann, Robert; Lockhart, Wood; Rau, Leonard; Voigt, Wolfgang; Zukowsky, John; Kisho Kurokawa Gallery Of Architecture

ISBN 10: 3791316842 / ISBN 13: 9783791316840

Published by Prestel Pub, 1996

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Large hardcover, size 30 x 24cm, As New, encased in plastic covering. First edition, pp255 Air travel has influenced the architecture and design of our century to a perhaps even greater degree than the automobile. This lavishly illustrated, expertly researched book traces the history of that influence, examining the development of airports around the world, as well as such related building types and topics as aircraft factories, maintenance hangars, notable airplane designs, and airline corporate imagery. Written by experts from Britain, Germany, Holland, and the U.S. - among them a pilot of thirty years' international flying experience - the essays in this volume discuss all these developments, together with the legal and financial role played in them by local and national government. The illustrations throughout the book encompass everything from plans and corporate identity designs to documentary photographs and computer renderings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation
• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3791316842
• ISBN 13: 9783791316840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Aviation

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Synopsis

This is a survey which examines the development of architecture and design for air travel from 1909. The book documents developments in airport architecture, aircraft construction, and interior design, right through to airline corporate identity. Among the historical material included are interior views of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, the Blohm and Voss flying boat, the Martin Aircraft Company assembly factory in Baltimore in 1937, and the first terminal building at Le Bourget Airport, Paris and La Guardia, New York. More recent design and architecture is highlighted by projects such as the proposed building at San Francisco International Airport, the latest control towers at Chicago O'Hare, New York JFK, and Los Angeles International Airports, and Richard Rogers' proposed design for Terminal 5 at London Heathrow. Essay on design and architecture examine many influential factors from the early days of aviation to the present day, including the impact of the Hoover administration's pledge of "an airport in every city" on America's air transportation. The essays analyze how changes in perception and the effects of encroaching urban growth have affected airport location in relation to city centres. The book concludes with a pilot's perspective, often misunderstood by planners and designers, showing how the "airside" and "landslide" points of view are of equal importance in airport design.