Airport age: Architecture and modernity in America
by Eggebeen, Janna, Ph.D., CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, 2007, 395 pages; 3283159

Abstract:

This study is a chronological and thematic examination of the architecture and design of the American airport over a seventy-year period, from their invention in the 1920s to the latest design developments of the 1990s. The airport is a new and quintessentially twentieth-century building type. Composed principally of airfield, control tower, hangars, terminal(s), administration and service buildings, as well as runways and access roads, it is a totally designed and extraordinarily complex architectural space. It is also a special social environment, and the airport functions as a modern heterotopia of both freedom and control. Flight and its land-based expression of the airport, particularly the passenger terminal, are integral to modern life, and, as this dissertation discusses, played an important role in the constitution of modernity.

 
AdviserRosemarie Haag@Bletter
SchoolCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
SourceDAI/A 68-09, p. , Jan 2008
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsArt history; Architecture
Publication Number3283159
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