Title & Author:

Modern trains and splendid stations : architecture, design, and rail travel for the twenty-first century / edited by Martha Thorne.

Publication:

London : Merrell Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications through St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"This book accompanies Modern Trains and Splendid Stations: Architecture, Design, and Rail Travel for the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago ... December 8, 2001-July 29, 2002"--Title page verso.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 8, 2001-July 29, 2002.
Covers extend to form two additional leaves.
Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
Renaissance of the train station / Martha Thorne -- Designing for their needs : passenger trains for today and tomorrow in Europe, Japan, and North America / Claudia Wessner -- A land of promise : the future of train travel in the United States / Don Phillips -- The projects.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Inter-city rail travel is one of the dominant facts of modern life. From the early nineteenth century, when the first train stations - "cathedrals of technology," buildings without precedent in the history of architecture - were constructed, these focal points of transportation have enjoyed a unique status in public life. They have come a long way from the simple wooden shed erected in Liverpool, England, in 1830." "In the wake of the rail renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s, new train stations, from the U.S. to Japan, must respond to increasingly complex challenges, as high-speed trains become more and more common and the next generation of magnetically levitated trains approaches. The state-of-the-art examples featured in Modern Trains and Splendid Stations are analyzed from several perspectives: as generators of urban renewal; as new architectural icons; and as connecting points from different means of transportation. Such internationally renowned architects as Helmut Jahn (in the United States), Nicholas Grimshaw (in England), and Arata Isozaki (in Japan) have all been involved in station design."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1858941490 (paperback)
9781858941493 (paperback)

Subject:

Railroad stations Design and construction Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
High speed trains Design and construction Exhibitions.
Gares Conception et construction Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Trains à grande vitesse Conception et construction Expositions.
High speed trains Design and construction
Architecture, Modern
Railroad stations Design and construction
Spoorwegstations.
Vernieuwing.
Railroad stations Design and construction. Exhibitions.
Railroad terminals Design and construction Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Thorne, Martha.
Art Institute of Chicago.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220756
Call No.: NA6310 .M6 2001
Status: Available