PRECEDENTS, SOURCES OF INSPIRATION, AND
OTHER MOTIVATING COMMENTS

...on Kansai International Airport

"The structure of the arches, with their longitudinal brackets, reminds us of an aircraft fuselage with the skin peeled off to let in light and to give a glimpse of the underlying construction."
-- Paul Goldberger et al: Renzo Piano and Building Workshop: Buildings and Projects 1971-1989. Rizzoli.

"The wave's distortion, as well as its obliquely vertical axis, questions gravity just as airplanes once did: the datum plane ceases to be the ground and becomes a conceptual or technological parameter."
-- Bernard Tschumi: Event-Cities (Praxis). The MIT Press, 1996.

"'...the most intense mode of city life, in which people would fly to Kansai International because it would be the place to be.'"
-- Bernard Tschumi: Anything. The MIT Press.