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Chargement... 2001: Building for Space Travelpar John Zukowsky
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, this volume focuses on the integral role of architects, civil engineers, industrial designers, and graphic designers actively involved in space exploration. Thirteen essays, accompanied by color plates, explore and illustrate the various facets of architecture and design for space travel and exploration, both in reality and in fiction. Topics addressed in this coffee-table-sized book include lunar voyages in literature and in films by Jules Verne, Georges Méliès, and Fritz Lang [among others], space flight and the cosmos in early Soviet culture, the Norman Rockwell paintings commissioned by NASA, icons of space photography, spaceships of the imagination, interior designs for Skylab, the design of the International Space Station, and the future of space tourism. It’s a different look at space travel, a treat for both the mind and the eyes. Highly recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
""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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It consists of a series of essays by various academics. Most of these are fairly useful, but in quite a few instances they betray little practical knowledge of their subjects, only theoretical knowledge. One academic, for example, refers to himself as a life-long enthusiast of science fiction and yet manages to refer to "Robert Heinlein's 'Foundation Trilogy' ' ...
What is quite remarkable is the vision of the immediate future in space which never materialised. One of the popular tropes of 'what if?' science fiction is "what if the Apollo programme hadn't been cancelled?'. Well, this book looks forward to a future that never happened because of 9/11. The diversion of funds away from NASA towards the 'War on Terror', and then the financial crisis of 2008, killed off a lot of public and private projects, many of which are illustrated in this book as, of course, it was prepared before the attacks in New York. In particular, the growth of space tourism is much more optimistically anticipated than happened in the real world. And no-one anticipated that the end of the Space Shuttle programme would be followed by stagnation in US developments in spaceflight - the Shuttle's successor is a return to full-stack single-use rockets (Elon Musk's reusable Falcons notwithstanding).
Still, this does not take away from this book, which is sumptuous. Highlight amongst the articles is a piece from Frederick Ordway III - the NASA advisor who worked on Kubrick's '2001' - on that film and the coverage by Collier's magazine of Wernher von Braun's plans in 1951. ( )