American ski resort : architecture, style, experience / Margaret Supplee Smith.

Main entry:

Smith, Margaret Supplee.

Title & Author:

American ski resort : architecture, style, experience / Margaret Supplee Smith.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 334 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
Part I. Resort skiing begins 1930s-1950s : Revamped inns, rustic cabins, and resort culture -- The first American destination ski resort: Sun Valley, 1936 -- Creating resort Aspen: historic preservation, cultural aspirations, and ski town -- Postwar populism 1950s-1960s : Alpine in America -- Mountain modernism -- Vacation homes: cabins to condos -- Resort skiing as a total experience 1970s-1980s : Reassessing skiing's environmental impact in the 1970s -- Regionalism reasserted -- Reimagining the mountain resort village: sport, entertainment, and community -- Vacation homes and resort housing: underground to over-the-top -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Three generations of ski resort architects -- Appendix 2. Biographies of ski resort architects.

Summary:

Explores the combined phenomena of skiing, tourism, and architecture from a national perspective. Focusing on destination ski resorts in New England, the Rocky Mountains, the Far West, and southern Canada, Smith examines the architecture of recreational skiing from the 1930s to 1990, showing how small, family-operated businesses evolved into the massive, theme-oriented, multipurpose ski establishments of today.

ISBN:

9780806142951 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0806142952 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ski resorts United States History.
Resort architecture United States History.
Architecture, American History.
Stations de ski États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture des lieux de villégiature États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture américaine Histoire.
Architecture, American.
Manners and customs.
Resort architecture.
Ski resorts.
Erschließung
Hotelbau
Skigebiet
Tourismus
United States Social life and customs.
United States United States Social life and customs.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285118
Call No.: BIB 224462
Status: Available

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