Now Boarding Museum Exhibition
In 2012, a major museum exhibition of Fentress Architects' airport designs entitled Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + the Architecture of Flight was opened at the Denver Art Museum. Curated by Donald Albrecht, architectural curator for the Museum of the City of New York whose previous exhibitions include well-received retrospectives on the work of such architectural notables as Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, Now Boarding ran for nearly three months.
The exhibition is described as the "first ever museum exhibition of airport architecture," and offers visitors a tour through the past, present, and future of air travel while focusing especially on six of Fentress Architects' most notable airport designs and their role in defining the modern airport. The exhibition also includes a segment called Airport of the Future that showcases work from a student exhibition as well as theoretical airport designs in the years 2062 and 2162. These theoretical airports, developed by an internal think tank at Fentress Architects consisting of architects, engineers from Stanford University, futurists, and artists, became a popular highlight of the show, and will be exhibited separately from the rest of the exhibition at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, CA beginning in March 2013.
A travelling version of the exhibition appeared in Amsterdam in November 2012, and the exhibition's full version will open in at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA beginning in March 2013.
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