Main entry:

Hornstein, Shelley, author.

Title & Author:

Architectural tourism : site-seeing, itineraries and cultural heritage / Shelley Hornstein.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2020.
©2020

Description:

192 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-187) and index.
'Oh the places you'll go!' -- World heritage sites and what we choose to remember -- Romancing the stone : the guidebook and architectural place -- Monuments as intangible or tangible heritage tourism -- The Bilbao effect, starchitecture and the rise of the designer museum -- No place like home -- To end with an exceptional architectural tourism story.

Summary:

"Since the era of pre-industrial religious pilgrimages, architecture has beckoned travellers. This book charts the relationship, and even the entanglement, between architecture and tourism. It reveals how architecture is always tied to its physical site, yet is transportable in our imagination - and into the virtual spheres of social media and armchair travel.0Illustrated with a range of studies of key buildings from history and the present-day, including the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, the book engagingly sheds light on topics such as the culture of ruins, the evolution of how tourists capture images of places, the rise of the designer museum, and architecture on television, film and in other media. It asks why architectural monuments and buildings attract and compel us to visit, why we feel the need to understand cities through architectural sites such as museums, historic sites and monuments, and how national identity is galvanised through its architecture and tourism. Sightseeing is, whether virtual or actual, site-seeing."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781848222274 (hardback)
1848222270 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture and tourism.
Architecture et tourisme.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319639
Call No.: 319639
Copy: 1
Status: Available