Architourism: Authentic, Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular: Flexi-cover by Joan Ockman

Architourism: Authentic, Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular: Flexi-cover by Joan Ockman

This cutting-edge book looks at why the world's most interesting buildings are becoming the hottest destinations for today's travellers. In the last few decades architecture has become a major focus for tourists, rather than merely part of a larger travel itinerary. Illustrated with one hundred colour and mono photographs and with eye-catching, innovative, refreshing layout and graphics by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center design team, this series of provocative essays and contributions by leading scholars, critics, architects and artists explores the role of architecture in the contemporary tourist imagination. From Mont Saint Michel and the Taj Mahal to Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum and the Blur Building in Switzerland's Lake Neuchatel, the authors focus on how certain iconic buildings have found their way into the cultural consciousness. At the same time they offer insights as to why other buildings, such as Minnesota's Mall of America and the faux architecture of Las Vegas, have become integral to their regions' tourist economy-and postulate how this success will influence architecture of the future.

TNT Magazine, October 24 2005 'Essays discussing each desire in depth may sound more textbook than entertainment, but the language is accessible and the format so eye-catching that you focus without noticing..The kind of cutting edge layout warranted by a discussion of modern architecture.'

Joan Ockman is Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. She has published widely in the field of architecture. Salomon Frausto is Programme Coordinator at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University.

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ISBN 13	9783791332970
ISBN 10	379133297X
Title	Architourism: Authentic, Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular: Flexi-cover
Author	Joan Ockman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prestel
Year published	2005-08-31
Number of pages	192
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