Hong Kong International Airport

Celebrates a century of airport design as a reflection of twentieth-century architecture, in a volume that features such designs as Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in New York, Renzo Piano's Kansai International Airport in Japan, and Norman Foster's Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong.

From the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement. Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life?shops, services, sociability?is available without a town, Pico Iyer takes us on a tour of the transnational village our world has become. From Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels, to Atlanta's Olympic Village, which seems to inadvertently commemorate a sort of corporate universalism, to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces his apartment building is called "The Memphis," Iyer ponders what the word "home" can possibly mean in a world whose face is blurred by its cultural fusion and its alarmingly rapid rate of change.