Architecture and Tourism
Perception, Performance and Place
Published on 15. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-85973-709-5 (ISBN)
Description
The past two centuries have witnessed an increase in the commodification of tourist sites across the world. Everything from historical monuments to exotic holiday destinations has been redesigned and packaged for mass consumption. As a result, the histories of specific sites have been re-conceptualized. Some have been preserved and celebrated, while others have been left to decay. In this process, buildings, cities and entire countries have been remapped by tourism initiatives to serve political, cultural, economic and scholarly goals. Considering these profound transformations, Architecture and Tourism examines the reciprocal relationship between the modern practice of tourism and the built environment. It shows how photography, film and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior and literature are institutionalized for popular consumption in order to support larger cultural objectives.
Drawing on case studies in Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius, Spain and the United States, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanaian coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana, from the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos to the postmodern spectacle of Bilbao, from the world's fairs of the 1930s to the colonialist encounters in Italian Libya, each chapter provides a provocative insight into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
Drawing on case studies in Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius, Spain and the United States, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanaian coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana, from the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos to the postmodern spectacle of Bilbao, from the world's fairs of the 1930s to the colonialist encounters in Italian Libya, each chapter provides a provocative insight into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
Reviews / Votes
Spectacle, pilgrimage, history, myth, vision of the future - all these realms come together in Architecture and Tourism, as they do in our personal travels and in national policies around the world. over the past three hundred years, tourism has become an essential element of western architecture.Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Lasanky and McLaren's comprehensive collection explores the historical dimensions of tourism, showing how it has always been intimately connected with matters of architecture, urbanism and space. At once insightful and informative, Architecture and Tourism is an important contribution to our understanding of this pervasive global phenomenon.Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, UCLA provocative series of essays about the interrelations between the designed environment and tourist practices. With a rich and diverse range of examples, the contributors place an insightful emphasis on the agency of both architecMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
45 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85973-709-5 (9781859737095)
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Persons
D. Medina Lasansky is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Brian McLaren is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Washington. With a Foreword by Davydd J. Greenwood.
Content
Foreword, Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell UniversityDefining a Canon and a Mode of PerceptionReproduction, Fragmentation, and Collection: The Logics of Roman Souvenirs from Print to Plastic, Sarah Benson, History of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University Early Travelers in Greece and the Invention of Medieval Architectural History, Kostis Kourelis, Art History, Swarthmore College Performing Abroad: British Tourists to Italy and the Production of Identity, 1840-1914, Jill Steward, School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria Politics of Pilgrimage From Tripoli to Ghadames: Architecture and the Tourist Experience of Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya, Brian L. McLaren, Architecture, University of Washington A Pilgrimage to the Alczar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Francos Spain, 1936-1940, Miriam Basilio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Authenticating Dungeons, Whitewashing Castles: Memory, Performance and Restoration at the Former Sites of Slave Trade in Ghana Cheryl Finley, Art, Wellesley College Packaging Place From Photographic Fragments to Architectural Illusions at the 1929 Poble Espanyol in Barcelona, Jordana Mendelson, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Similating France, Seducing the World: The Regional Center at the 1937 Paris Exposition, Deborah D. Hurtt, Architectural History, University of Virginia Tourist Geographies: Re-mapping Old Habana, D. Medina Lasansky, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University Performance and Popular CultureSweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort, Tim Edensor, Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University and Uma Kothari, Insitute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester Doing it Right: Post-war Honeymoon Resorts in the Pocono Mountains, Barbara Penner, Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, University College London The Post-Modern Imagination "New Politics of the Spectacle: Bilbao and the Global Imagination," Joan Ockman, Architecture, Columbia University Egypt on Steroids: Luxor Las Vegas and Postmodern Orientalism, Jeffrey Cass, Language and Literature, Texas A M International University