The 20-year-old design of Denver International Airport by Fentress Architects mimics the backdrop of Rocky Mountains - or a row of Native American teepees, depending on your vantage point. Photography: Ellen Jaskol

20多年前，柯蒂斯·芬特雷斯(Curtis Fentress)为落基山首府丹佛设计了他的第一座机场。当时，这位建筑师彻底背离了上世纪70年代和80年代的大型人机库，帮助航空旅行重新回到了令人兴奋和迷人的境界。

这就是“现在登机：飞机场和飞行建筑”的前提，本周在丹佛艺术博物馆开幕。这次回顾展将焦点集中在Fentress建筑设计师们收藏的图纸、照片、模型和电影上，以展示当代机场革命背后的创作过程。

标志性的丹佛枢纽，于1995年建成，是显而易见的明星。它的织物天篷，充满了光，模仿雪白山峰的落基山脉或聚落的帐篷，取决于你的有利点。(使用氨纶、丙烯酸和佳得尔泡沫织物代替钢材也为机场节省了一大笔屋顶费用)。

这一设计促使韩国来敲门。芬太斯对首尔仁川国际机场的回应是避开直角，像风中的帆一样向外倾斜墙壁，加上像古韩国寺庙一样的弧形横扫屋顶。机场于2001年启用，带来了足够的自然光来培育一系列室内花园。这是韩国文化的第一堂课。

在西雅图机场、圣若泽和罗利达勒姆之间的某个地方，芬特雷斯——伊姆佩伊的一个支柱，成为了引人注目的机场功能设计的重要去处。这些建筑比未来的门户网站更少的交通枢纽，以迅速扩张中心，这是千百万观光议程的第一站，也是转移到城镇的另一端的暗示。

一个展示“未来机场”创意的画廊是Fentress目前的事业，这是洛杉矶国际机场的现代化计划，包括一个加利福尼亚蓝色波浪形车顶和电车和人行道的意大利面连接处。由于将于2013年初向公众开放，这很可能是Fentress最上镜的一次郊游，为许多好莱坞寓言提供了背景。在丹佛展览上观看设计和建筑的视觉播放。或者马上在你附近的剧院里看。

Natural light enters through the curtain wall. Photography: Timothy Hursley

The iconic fabric roof saved the airport millions of dollars in steel costs

The peaks allow in natural light, profiting from Denver’s 300 days of sunshine a year. The canopy material also filters harsh solar radiation

The winning entry from Fentress's Airport of the Future contest. Rendering: Oliver Andrew, Fentress Architects

Fentress designed Incheon International Airport in Seoul with a sweeping roofline arced like an ancient Korean temple. The walls jut out at wide angles like sails in the nearby harbour. Constructed between 1993 and 2001, the 46-gate terminal is South Korea's largest building. Photography: Paul Dingman

The practice is currently modernising LAX with a wavy roof illuminated with blue light after dark. The first phase will open early next year. The roof structure follows a contour of ocean waves, which will be illuminated with blue light after dark

When Fentress redeveloped and extended Raleigh-Durham’s airport between 2003 and 2010, they designed the structure to echo the North Carolina hills. Photography: Brady Lambert

The 2,000sq m curved glass wall at Seattle-Tacoma, extended between 1998 and 2005. Photography: Nick Merrick, Hedrich Blessing

On a clear day, you can see to the Olympic Mountains. Photography: James P Scholz

The San Jose, California, airport terminal - built between 2006 and 2010 - is an enormous glass tube fitted with a perforated metal skin. Photography: Ken Paul

The curbside approach in San Jose. Photograph: Jason A Knowles

The Denver Art Museum exhibition also includes archive airport imagery, such as this picture of Fuhlsbuttel Airport in Hamburg from 1929, taken from the Hamburg Airport archive

Eero Saarinen's 1962 design for the TWA Terminal at New York's Idlewild Airport. Photograph: Balthazar Korab

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