Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by The Art
Institute of Chicago and presented there during 1996. Some 350 color
and black & white illustrations document not only airports, but also
such related building types and topics as aircraft factories,
maintenance hangars, notable airplane designs, and airline corporate
imagery. Essays by contributors from Britain, Germany, Holland, and
the US discuss the social and economic factors related to airport
history and development as well as the legal and financial roles of
local and national government. Distributed by Te Neues Publishing Co.
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Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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