Title & Author:

2001 : building for space travel / John Zukowsky, editor ; with contributions by Rachel Armstrong [and others].

Publication:

Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Biogs.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), 24 Mar. - 21 Oct. 2001, Museum of Flight, Seattle, 15 Dec. 2001 - 15 May 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / James N. Wood and Ralph A. Bufano -- Acknowledgments / John Zukowsky -- Introduction: Architecture and Design for Space: Vision and Reality / John Zukowsky -- The Cosmos: Perceptions of Space -- Plates 1-9 -- Fly Me to the Moon: Lunar Voyages in Literature and Film / Johann N. Schmidt -- Red Stars and Rocket Ships: Space Flight and the Cosmos in Early Soviet Culture / Scott W. Palmer -- Eye on the Sky: From Astronomy to Astronautics at World's Fairs and Theme Parks / David Brodherson -- Conflict and the Conquest of Space -- Plates 10-65 -- Shooting the Moon: Icons of Space Photography / Peter Bacon Hales -- On the Threshold of Space: Norman Rockwell's Longest Step / Anne Collins Goodyear -- The Vostok Cosmonauts: Training the New Soviet Person / Deane Simpson -- Airpower Doctrine and Hypersonic Technology: A Political History of the Dyna-Soar / Roy F. Houchin II -- Selling Space: Corporate Identity and Space Imagery / Leonard Rau -- Exploration and Inhabitation of the Wilderness -- Plates 66-94 -- Challenging the Conventions of Science Fiction: The Design of the International Space Station / Howard E. McCurdy -- Spaceships of the Imagination in Collier's and 2001 / Frederick I. Ordway III -- Architecture in Motion: The Interior Design of Skylab / Rebecca Dalvesco -- Gravity, Space, and Architecture / Theodore W. Hall -- The Future of Space Tourism / Rachel Armstrong -- App. A Biographical Glossary of Architects, Aerospace Engineers, and Designers / Thomas Foltz.
App. Guide to Museums and Institutions with Space-Related Collections / Dennis Parks.

Summary:

""Five, four, three, two, one, ignition - we have liftoff!" How many times have we heard these words on television and in film - words that preceded launches at Cape Canaveral, including the historic Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo flights of the 1960s and 1970s? Likewise, phrases such as "Beam me up, Scotty" and "Energize!" have become part of our everyday vocabulary, thanks to the long-term influence of the Star Trek television shows and films since the 1960s." "When we think of the design professionals who work on these movies and television programs, we immediately think of set and costume designers. Despite our superficial familiarity with rocketry and space travel from the media, few of us think of architects, civil engineers, industrial designers, and graphic designers as actively involved in space exploration. This volume, which is published on the occasion of an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, focuses on the integral role that these design professionals play in the implementation of the dream of space travel."--Jacket.

ISBN:

(pbk.)
086559188I
0810944901 (hbk.)
9780810944909 (hbk.)
0865591881
9780865591882

Subject:

Launch complexes (Astronautics) Design and construction Exhibitions.
Architecture, Postmodern Exhibitions.
Space vehicles Design and construction Exhibitions.
Space vehicles in art Exhibitions.
Astronautics Popular works Exhibitions.
Astronautics in literature Exhibitions.
Science fiction Illustrations Exhibitions.
Architecture postmoderne Expositions.
Véhicules spatiaux Conception et construction Expositions.
Véhicules spatiaux dans l'art Expositions.
Astronautique dans la littérature Expositions.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Astronautics in literature.
Science fiction Illustrations.
Space vehicles Design and construction.
Space vehicles in art.
Space probes.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Zukowsky, John.
Armstrong, Rachel.
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago)
Museum of Flight (Seattle)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218101
Call No.: TL4015 .A15 2001
Status: Available