The Museum of Flying hosts first exhibition on airport architecture

from  worldinteriordesignnetwork.com

Published: 22-Aug-2013

The Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California, is hosting the first-ever museum exhibition of airport architecture titled,’ Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight,’ designed by Fentress Architects.

Created by acclaimed architectural curator Donald Albrecht, the exhibition, which opened to the public on 3 April is in Santa Monica till 25 August 2013, before it travels to other international venues.

The exhibition takes visitors on a multi-media journey through the past, present, and future of airport architecture, aided by film, digital art, animation, drawings, photographs, and rarely seen architectural models.

It has three distinct themes: The history of airport design; an up-close exploration of international airport projects designed by Curtis Fentress; and the future of airport design as imagined by experts.

Now Boarding also has an entire section dedicated to LAX and the $1.9bn expansion of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, featuring a 24ft scale model.

The exhibition focuses on the designs by Fentress Architects, which have designed some of the world's most celebrated airports, such as LAX where the new international terminal's wave-like shape evokes the beach lifestyle of Los Angeles. Other notable Fentress designs include Incheon International Airport in South Korea and Denver International Airport.

Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight was developed by Albrecht, in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum.

The museum exhibition initially debuted in Denver and Amsterdam. After Los Angeles, it will travel to Shanghai, China, and Washington, DC., and will continue to tour internationally through 2015.

This international museum exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, also called Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, featuring essays by Christoph Heinrich, Donald Albrecht, Peter Christensen, Gillian Fuller, Tibbie Dunbar, and Curtis Fentress.

Exhibition support is provided by Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Airport Council International, Martin/Martin, Inc., Vectra Bank Colorado, U.S. Bank, Earth Asia Design Group, MJAD Advertising + Design, John A. Martin & Associates, Colorado Business Bank, Peliton Group Holdings LLC, Fuller | Sothebey's International Realty, Selbert Perkins Design Collaborative, VSA & Associates, TTG Corp, BASE Architecture, and URS