TXL, Berlin Tegel Airport / Jürgen Tietz (Hg.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tietz, Jürgen, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Berlin Tegel Airport (Germany).

Airport buildings--Germany--Berlin.

Airport buildings.

Airports--Germany--Berlin--Planning--History.

Airports.

Airports--Germany--Berlin--Pictorial works.

Architecture--Germany--Berlin.

Architecture.

Planning.

History.

Germany--Berlin.

Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Berlin (Germany).

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

248 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Park Books, [2020]

Language Note:

Parallel texts in German and English.

Summary:

Berlin Tegel TXL is the airport of short distances and an icon of Modern architecture. With its striking hexagonal shape and concept of check-in counters right at each gate, Tegel has made air travel history. Indeed, Berliners are passionately nostalgic about Tegel, since it served as the window to the wider world for the once-isolated island of West Berlin. At the same time, this airport represents the launch of architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners? (gmp) success story. Together with Klaus Nickels, the then recently graduated Hamburg architects won the 1965 competition for building the new airport, which opened in 1974.0Numerous historical and contemporary photos, together with drawings, have been taken from the gmp Architects? archive to illustrate the Tegel Gesamtkunstwerk, its vibrant color scheme and overall design, from the structure as a whole right down to the check-in counters with their rounded edges. Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg provide a detailed account of this early commission, and the book includes an essay by Jürgen Tietz on the specific qualities of this unique air terminal?now a listed building?and its historical significance.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Drive to Your Gate

Aus Berlin in alle Welt

Der Flughafen Tegel und seine Architekten Ein Essay von Jurgen Tietz Ein Flughafen ist kein Schloss Meinhard von Gerkan und Volkwin Marg im Gesprach mit Jurgen Tietz

Vom Dreiecksraster zum perfekten Sechseck Konzeption und Bauprozess des Flughafens Tegel

Denkmal TXL Ein Nachwort von Christoph Rauhut

Anhang

Drive to Your Gate

From Berlin to the Four Corners of the World: Tegel Airport and Its Architects An Essay by Jurgen Tietz

An Airport Is Not a Palace: Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg in Conversation with Jiirgen Tietz

From Triangular Grid to Perfect Hexagon: Conceiving and Building Tegel Airport

TXL: A Designated Landmark An Afterword by Christoph Rauhut.

Contains:

TXL, Berlin Tegel Airport.

TXL, Berlin Tegel Airport. English.

ISBN:

9783038602026

3038602027

OCLC:

1223317170

Publisher Number:

9783038602026