Airport Design Final Exam Review

Evolutionary Phase

100

This historical airport was world's first to have a hard-surfaced concrete runway.

Dearborn Ford Airport

200

First airport in the USA to have an airline terminal for passenger use.

Dearborn Ford

300

This airport featured the first land and seaplane air terminal design in the world.

New Orleans Sushan Lakefront Airport

400

This terminal configuration is defined by a simple, elongated airport design where airports park directly alongside the terminal building, allowing for short, direct walking paths from curb to gate. It is easy to expand by extending the building length.

Linear

500

This style of architectural design characterized by bold geometric shapes, strong vertical lines, and symmetry, is often featured in airports in the 1930s - 1940s.

Art Deco

Jet Age

100

JFK introduced the terminal city concept, but prior to JFK the airport was known as this

Idlewild Airport

200

This landmark terminal highlighted the importance of passenger experience, airline branding, and the prestige of jet travel at the time. Considered one of the most iconic airport terminals ever built.

TWA Flight Center

300

This airport implemented into their design the use of semicircular terminals for shorter passenger walking distances.

Dallas Fort Worth (DFW)

400

This architectural style focuses on expressing emotion, movement, and artistic vision, often using dramatic, organic, and sculptural forms. 

Expressionism

500

This architectural style focused on expressing speed, movement, technology, and the future, often using dramatic and innovative forms.

Futurism

Transfer Interchange

100

This airport was among the first to introduce an automated people mover allowing for fast passenger transfers? 

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport

200

This airport was built on reclaimed land.

Changi Singapore

300

This airport was the first to introduce elevated pedestrian bridges over taxiways.

Denver International

400

Prior to Changi airport, this airport was the primary airport for air travel in the country of Singapore.

Paya Lebar

500

Prior to the terminals relocation to midfield, this operational challenge was a major concern at Altanta's airport.

Runway crossings

Architects

100

This Architect designed Denver International Airport

Curtis Fentress

200

This architect designed Washington Dulles airport terminal

Eero Saarinen

300

This architect designed the St. Louis Lambert Airport.

Minoru Yamasaki

400

This famous architect also designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri 

Eero Saarinen

500

This architect designed Pan Am Worldport

Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton

Iconic Features

100

Indoor Waterfall at Changi

Jewel

200

Futuristic building at LAX

Theme Building

300

Washington Dulles is the only airport the uses these today. Originally designed to be technological innovations, the concept failed to take off and proved costly to maintain.

Mobile Lounges

400

This airport features a space frame ceiling design inside the passenger terminal. A defining architectural element characterized by an open lightweight, triangular, truss structure. 

Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI)

500

This airport passenger terminal is known for its signature vaulted copper concrete roof.

St. Louis Lambert Airport