The functional and architectural complexity of contemporary airports makes them ideal objects to speculate on the anthropological meaning of the notion of ‘place’. Marc Augé defines airports as ‘non-places’\cite{auge}. Augé’s formulation of non-place, is a derivation of, or rather a deviation from, the idea of ‘space’ posited by Michel de Certeau\cite{deCerteau}. According to De Certeau, the act of social practice transforms a ‘place’ into a ‘space’. Thus, a deserted street is a ‘place’, but ‘the intersection of moving bodies’ transforms it into a ‘space’. Augé reformulates the notion of place/space in anthropological terms, by focusing on the individual, rather than collective spatial experiences. He posits that certain spaces, although being ‘frequented’ are inherently uniform and flat to the point that they resist any sort of subjective, emotional attachment. Augé’s notion of non-place is not unique to airports. Non-places are also other ‘constructions of the everyday world’\cite{acevedo-riker:2006} such as railway stations, aircrafts, hotels, shopping malls and leisure parks. It is true that all these non-places share a number of common characteristics and they all resist the attribution of ‘space’ in the sense postulated by De Certeau. However, the non-placeness of airports goes beyond spatial connotations. Modern air travel has generated forms of crisis that have embedded themselves in the architecture and the modus operandi of contemporary airports.