Building for Air Travel
Subtitle: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation (Architecture & Design)
Contributors: Koos Bosma (Editor); John Zukowsky (Editor); Kisho Kurokawa Gallery of Architecture (Corporate Author)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783791316840
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Aircraft: general interest; History of engineering & technology; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Exhibitions; 20th century; Airport buildings; Planning; Reference; Exhibition Catalogs; Design & Drafting; Architecture; Art; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Airports; Design and construction; Architecture, Postmodern
Description: 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.