Naked Airport (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Emersion Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2008-05-01
Förlag
The University of Chicago Press
Dimensioner
230 x 164 x 17 mm
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440 g
ISBN
9780226304564

Naked Airport

A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure

av Alastair Gordon
Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-05-01
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon traces the cultural history of this defining institution from its origins in muddy fields to its frontline position in the struggle against international terrorism.From global politics to action movies to the daily commute, Gordon shows how the airport has changed our sense of time, distance, and style, and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. He introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindbergh, architects like Le Corbusier, and political figures like Fiorello LaGuardia and Adolf Hitler. "Naked Airport" is a profoundly original history of a long-neglected yet central component of modern life.
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Alastair Gordon is a critic, curator, and contributing writer to the New York Times and writes regularly for Architectural Digest, Town & Country, and Dwell. He is the author of several books, including Weekend Utopia, Spaced Out, Beach Houses, and Romantic Modernist.

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