Airport Terminals; Author: Blow, Christopher J.; Hardback; Book

Author: Blow, Christopher J.
Edition #2; Butterworth Architecture Library of Planning & Design; Hardback; Book; 148 Line Illustrations, 150 Photographs
228 pages
Published: April 1996
Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750625856
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Airport passenger terminals have become a major new public building-type representing transportation in the late twentieth century. The functional planning of facilities for aircraft and people, and the architectural forms to accommodate them, are of great interest to designers and the myriad of people who work in and visit airports. The book is a discourse rather than a design guide. It is written for an international readership and illustrated from the author's experience.This text covers the functional planning of facilities for aircraft and people and the architectural forms that accommodate them. Intended as a discourse rather than a design guide, it provides a review of airport design principles and discusses the organic nature of modern buildings.