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- Condition
- PublishedOn
- 2008-06-01
- ISBN
- 9780226304564
- EAN
- 9780226304564
- Book Title
- Naked AirPort : a Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Architecture, Transportation, History
- Topic
- Aviation / General, Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, General, Aviation / Commercial
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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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 the muddy fields of flying machines 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. "This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture. . . . Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover."-- People " A] splendid cultural history."-- Atlantic Monthly "Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports."--Michael Roth, San Francisco Chronicle "Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don't leave home without it."--Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226304566
ISBN-13
9780226304564
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63177075
Product Key Features
Book Title
Naked AirPort : a Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Aviation / General, Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, General, Aviation / Commercial
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Architecture, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tl725.G647 2008
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" Naked Airport racks up elite-status frequent-flier miles as it ranges across airports on every continent."-- Bookforum , Gordon's prose is deft and witty. . . . Naked Airport elegantly traces the development of air travel by positioning the airport as a metaphor for our relationship to history and the rest of the world, capturing both the excitement and the anxiety of modern flight., Gordon's prose is deft and witty. . . . Naked Airport elegantly traces the development of air travel by positioning the airport as a metaphor for our relationship to history and the rest of the world, capturing both the excitement and the anxiety of modern flight., The genius of Naked Airport is its portrayal of how these way stations have changed from the muddy airfields of the 1920s to their heyday in the '60s and beyond. . . . In charting this evolution, Gordon has written the ideal book to bring with you on a long nonstop flight., This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture. . . . Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover., "The genius of Naked Airport is its portrayal of how these way stations have changed from the muddy airfields of the 1920s to their heyday in the '60s and beyond. . . . In charting this evolution, Gordon has written the ideal book to bring with you on a long nonstop flight."- Time Out New York , "Alastair Gordon''s breezy, engaging new book Naked Airport . . . ingeniously traces the development of airport architecture."-- The New York Observer , "This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture. . . . Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover."--"People", 0;Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports.1;2;Michael Roth, "San Francisco Chronicle" -- Michael Roth "San Francisco Chronicle", 0;[An] interesting, informative book.1;2;Jonathan Yardley, "Washington"" Post Book World""" "" "" "" "" "" -- Jonathan Yardley "Washington Post Book World", Captivating and informative . . . can be warmly recommended, both for its richness of detail and Gordon's easy command of architectural style., " Naked Airport is as exhilarating as it is literate and informative."--John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , "Taxi-ing smoothly between architecture, planning and social history, Gordon explains how the soar-and-crash record of the airport as icon mirrors the rise and fall of technology-driven optimism."-- Independent (UK) , "Gordon''s compelling narrative shows how architecture is bound up with the rest of the world in a way that architectural histories too rarely do."-- The Architect''s Newspaper , Alastair Gordon's breezy, engaging new book Naked Airport . . . ingeniously traces the development of airport architecture., Gordon's engaging history tells the story of how airports have changed-from the first muddy airfields transporting people into a new world of experience (the '20th-century version of sublime'), through their transformation into 'symbols of progressive thinking and utopian planning,' and their sad decline into 'an allegory for all that was dehumanizing in modern life.', " Gordon''s lively history [is written] with an eclectic range of reference and an eye for detail . . . smoothly blending cultural and aesthetic history."-- Publishers Weekly , Naked Airport racks up elite-status frequent-flier miles as it ranges across airports on every continent., " Gordon''s prose is deft and witty. . . . Naked Airport elegantly traces the development of air travel by positioning the airport as a metaphor for our relationship to history and the rest of the world, capturing both the excitement and the anxiety of modern flight."--MSNBC , Gordon's compelling narrative shows how architecture is bound up with the rest of the world in a way that architectural histories too rarely do., "The genius of Naked Airport is its portrayal of how these way stations have changed from the muddy airfields of the 1920s to their heyday in the '60s and beyond. . . . In charting this evolution, Gordon has written the ideal book to bring with you on a long nonstop flight."-Time Out New York, "Alastair Gordon scrutinizes airports as a microcosm of twentieth-century America, and it's all there--the technology, the architecture, the politics, the business, and the genius and daring that it took to meet the challenge of an ever on-rushing future. "Naked Airport" is as exhilarating as it is literate and informative." --John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" " "Naked Airport" vividly conjures up the primitive buildings and intrepid bravado of pioneering aviation, the alluring fantasies that surrounded early commercial flights, the advent of fashion with high-speed jet-travel in the 1960s, followed by the intrusion of cost-butting and surveillance that turned the dream into a nightmare later that same decade. Alastair Gordon's book reminds us that the experience of flying is conditioned, more than anything, by that of airports." --Gwendolyn Wright, "Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America" "Reading Alistair Gordon' s splendid survey of airport architecture is like stepping into a time machine and bearing witness to all the ambition and angst of the 20th century itself." Naked Airport" is highly erudite, extremely entertaining and a fascinating read." --Carole Rifkind, author of" A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture", "This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture. . . . Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover."- People , "Captivating and informative . . . can be warmly recommended, both for its richness of detail and Gordon's easy command of architectural style."- Daily Telegraph (UK) , Gordon's engaging history tells the story of how airports have changed--from the first muddy airfields transporting people into a new world of experience (the '20th-century version of sublime'), through their transformation into 'symbols of progressive thinking and utopian planning,' and their sad decline into 'an allegory for all that was dehumanizing in modern life.', Naked Airport racks up elite-status frequent-flier miles as it ranges across airports on every continent., Gordon charts the development of the airport through world war, political reorganization, technological innovation, fashion and periods of commercial boom and bust. [...He] provides the reader with an in-depth, and seemingly well researched investigation into how the airport terminal evolved such a great deal, in what is a period of still less than a century., Taxi-ing smoothly between architecture, planning and social history, Gordon explains how the soar-and-crash record of the airport as icon mirrors the rise and fall of technology-driven optimism., Gordon's lively history [is written] with an eclectic range of reference and an eye for detail . . . smoothly blending cultural and aesthetic history., Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don't leave home without it., Gordon's lively history [is written] with an eclectic range of reference and an eye for detail . . . smoothly blending cultural and aesthetic history., "Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports."-Michael Roth, San Francisco Chronicle , "Gordon's engaging history tells the story of how airports have changed-from the first muddy airfields transporting people into a new world of experience (the '20th-century version of sublime'), through their transformation into 'symbols of progressive thinking and utopian planning,' and their sad decline into 'an allegory for all that was dehumanizing in modern life.'"- Guardian Review , "A richly illustrated and highly readable account of airport design as a social phenomenon."-- Air & Space Magazine , 0;The genius of "Naked"" Airport" is its portrayal of how these way stations have changed from the muddy airfields of the 1920s to their heyday in the 6;60s and beyond. . . . In charting this evolution, Gordon has written the ideal book to bring with you on a long nonstop flight.1;2;"Time Out New York" " """ "", 0;Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don7;t leave home without it.1;2;Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum -- Terence Riley, Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports., "Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don't leave home without it."--Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum, "Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don't leave home without it."-Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum , 0;This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture. . . . Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover.1;2;"People", "Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports."-Michael Roth,San Francisco Chronicle
Table of Content
Prologue 1. Prototypes: 1924-1930 2. Naked Airport: 1930-1940 3. New Deal: 1933-1941 4. Air Power: 1939-1957 5. Jet-Land: 1957-1970 6. The Sterile Concourse: 1970-2000 Epilogue: From Lindbergh to Bin Laden Notes Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits Acknowledgements Index
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-051962
Dewey Decimal
387.7/3609
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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