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by Alastair Gordon

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.


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Paris, May 21, 1927. At first he was confused. It didn't look like an airport.

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  • Title Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
  • Author Alastair Gordon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition University of Ch
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226304564 / 0226304566
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.45 x 0.66 in (23.01 x 16.38 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture, Postmodern, Airports - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007051962
  • Dewey Decimal Code 387.736

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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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