
Megastructure Schiphol
Design in Spectacular Simplicity
Koos Bosma(Editor)
NAI Publishers
Published on 5. June 2012
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-90-5662-852-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Amsterdam Airport Schipol can genuinely be called a megastructure. Originally opened in 1916, Schipol has been added to in fits and starts over the years, maintaining throughout its construction an extraordinary consistency and simplicity of design, and expanding to become a city in its own right. Now one of the world's busiest airports, Schipol enjoys an iconic status in Holland, and not only because of its sheer scale--its signage, for example, developed by the information design firm Mijksenaar, has been adopted by airports all around the world and is admired today as a classic motif of Dutch Design. Megastructure Schipol looks at the history of Schipol: its metamorphoses over the years; its function as a model for other airports; and its unique accommodation of the surrounding metropolis, in terms of economics, infrastructure, design and image-making.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 307 mm
Width: 245 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1887 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5662-852-9 (9789056628529)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification