The Airport…and how it got that way

You’ve all probably got an airport you hate, and a favorite (or perhaps least-hated) one. And I’m sure you’ve often wondered why they put the baggage claim there, and why the food is over there, and why it just so often seems to be two miles to the gate.

Here’s your chance to hear it from the mouth of Paul Andreu, the architect who was responsible for the original design and continued development of Paris Charles de Gaulle and has been a consultant on many other airports world-wide. For “50 Years of Airport Design, an hour-long discussion with an architecture critic at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, click HERE

Photo: Wikimedia / P.O.H.

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