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To commemorate the December 2003 centennial of the first powered flight
as marked by the Wright brothers in December 1903, the Aeronautics
Research Mission Directorate at NASA organized an exhibition titled
"Aerospace Design: The Art of Engineering from NASA's Aeronautical
Research." Artifacts in the exhibition included architectural and
engineering designs for wind tunnels, wind tunnel models, and designs
for conceptual airplanes, past and present. The exhibition's first
showing was organized by the Department of Architecture at The Art
Institute of Chicago in August 2003 at the Kisho Kurokawa Gallery of
Architecture. From there the exhibition traveled to the Octagon Museum
in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 2004, and then appeared at the
Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City in the fall of 2005, and the
Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio in the fall of 2006. A photographic
version of the exhibition circulated to airports throughout the United
States. Curators of the exhibition were: John Zukowsky, former chair,
Art Institute of Chicago Department of Architecture, and current chief
curator of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum; Tom Dixon, director
of the Aerospace Design exhibition for NASA; and Tony Springer, former
director of NASA's Centennial of Flight Activities and current Lead for
Communications and Education at the Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate.
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