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The Art of the Airport Alexander Gutzmer

The Art of the Airport By Alexander Gutzmer

The Art of the Airport by Alexander Gutzmer


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Summary

Cathedrals of the jet age that offer something of the transcendence of flight even in an era of mass travel and budget fares. Here are twenty-one of the most beautiful airports in the world.

The Art of the Airport Summary

The Art of the Airport: The World's Most Beautiful Terminals by Alexander Gutzmer

Three quarters of a million people are in a plane somewhere right now. Many millions travel by air each day. For most of us, the experience of being in an airport is to be endured rather than appreciated, with little thought for the quality of the architecture. No matter how hard even the world's best architects have tried, it is difficult to make a beautiful airport.

And yet such places do exist. Cathedrals of the jet age that offer something of the transcendence of flight even in an era of mass travel and budget fares. Here are twenty-one of the most beautiful airports in the world.

The book features:
Wellington International Airport, 'The Rock' shaped like the dangerous cliffs of a local legend
Kansai International Airport, Renzo Piano's gigantic project built on three mountains of landfill
Shenzhen International Airport, a manta ray shaped terminal putting this booming region on the map
Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest civilian airport in the middle of the Tibetan mountains
Chhatrapati Shijavi International Airport, rising from the slums of Mumbai like a Mogul palace
Queen Tamar Airport, a playfully iconic modern airport nestled in the mountains of Georgia
King Abdulaziz International Airport, the gateway to Mecca resembling a Bedouin city of tents
Pulkovo Airport, mirroring the city of St Petersburg with bridges, squares and art
Berlin-Tegel Airport, ultramodernity, 1970s style
Copenhagen Airport, an icon from the golden age of air travel
Franz Josef Strauss Airport, sober and easy to negotiate, Munich's model airport
Paris Charles du Gaulle Airport, the brutalist icon that launched the career of airport architect Paul Andreu
London Stansted Airport, Norman Foster's return to the golden age of air travel
Lleida-Alguaire Airport, a relic of Catalonia's early 21st century building boom
Madrid-Barajas Airport, Richard Rogers and Antonio Lamela's calm, bamboo-panelled Terminal 4
Marrakesh Menara Airport, a blend of 21st century construction and traditional Morrocan design
Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro's modernist masterpiece
Carrasco International Airport, Rafael Vinoly's design inspired by the sand dunes of his native Uruguay
Malvinas Argentinas International Airport, echoing the mountains and glaciers of Tierra del Fuego
John F Kennedy International Airport, Eero Saarinen's glamorous jet-age TWA terminal
Spaceport America, a vision of the future in the New Mexico desert

About Alexander Gutzmer

Alexander Gutzmer is the chief editor of the architecture magazineBaumeister and editorial director at the publisher Callwey. He also teaches at the Department of Corporate Communications at the Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.

Laura Frommberg and Stefan Eiselin are business journalists and publishers of the largest German language blog on the subject of air travel: areotelegraph.com.

Table of Contents

WLG Wellington, New Zealand

KIX Kansai, Japan

SZX Shenzen, China

DCY Dabba, Tibet

BOM Mumbai, India

XXX Queen Tamar, Georgia

JED Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

LED St Petersburg, Russia

TXL Berlin, Germany

CPH Copenhagen, Denmark

MUC Munich, Germany

CDG Paris, France

STN Stansted, UK

ILD Lleida, Spain

MAD Madrid, Spain

RAK Marrakech, Morocco

SDU Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

MVD Montevideo, Uruguay

USH Ushuaia, Argentina

JFK New York, USA

90NM Upham NM, USA

Additional information

GOR007926743
9780711238411
0711238413
The Art of the Airport: The World's Most Beautiful Terminals by Alexander Gutzmer
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quarto Publishing PLC
20161006
192
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