Naked Airport - A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In "Naked Airport," critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Zusammenfassung From global politics to action movies to the daily commute! this title shows how the airport has changed our sense of time! distance! and style! and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. It introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition.

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Gordon, Alastair Gordon, Gordon Alastair
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2008
• EAN: 9780226304564
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30456-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith; mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings