Title & Author:

Architourism : authentic, escapist, exotic, spectacular / edited by Joan Ockman and Salomon Frausto ; designed by Brett Snyder.

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2005.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Series:

Buell Center / Columbia book of architecture

Notes:
"A Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture."
Includes bibliographical references.
Point of departure -- Architecture and mass tourism / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Nine site-seers -- Travelogues / Diller + Scofidio -- [Pt.1] Authentic: -- Introduction / Mark Jarzombek -- Beyond in/authenticity : Dresden's Frauenkirche / Christiane Hertel -- Blurred boundaries between tourism and history : the case of Tuscany / D. Medina Lasansky -- Selling the Shtetl / Anette Baldauf -- Detour: -- The veneration of ruins in the landscape of holocaust memory / James E. Young -- The Fall / Lucy R. Lippard -- Untitled (World Trade Center) / Hans Haacke -- Self-portraits / Tseng Kwong Chi -- [Pt.2] Exotic: -- Introduction / Felicity D. Scott -- Contemporary tourist experience as Mise-en-Scène / Marc Augé -- Multitudes on tour / McKenzie Wark -- Theater of the exotic : tourist space as stage and performance / Tim Edensor -- Detour: -- Exotic with an "X" / Ackbar Abbas -- In the place of the public : airport series / Martha Rosler -- Import, export / Mark Robbins -- Island / Piero Steinle -- [Pt.3] Escapist: -- Introduction / Neil Leach -- Architecture, route to transcendence / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Escapism? / Karal Ann Marling -- North Korea love boat / Keller Easterling -- Detour: -- Something for nothing / Silvia Kolbowski -- Remake Las Vegas / Anette Baldauf and Dorit Margreiter -- [Pt.4] Spectacular: -- Introduction / Pellegrino D'Acierno -- JVC Center / TEN Arquitectos -- Paris Expo / Bernard Tschumi Architects -- Blue building / Diller + Scofidio -- Bestride the world like a collosus : the architect as tourist / Joan Ockman -- Oktoberfest / Julian Rosefeldt.

Summary:

"Architectural monuments from Mont Saint Michel and the Alhambra to the Taj Mahal have long served as tourist attractions. So what's new about the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Blur Building, the JVC Center in Guadalajara, and other sites designed to entice visitors? Over 30 international architects, artists, and critics offer their interpretations of a phenomenon of our time."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
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ISBN:

379133297X (pbk.)
9783791332970 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and tourism.
Architecture and recreation.
Architecture et loisirs.
Architecture et tourisme.
Architektur
Reiseziel
Sehenswürdigkeit

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Bildband.

Added entries:

Ockman, Joan.
Frausto, Salomon.
Buell Center / Columbia book of architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242547
Call No.: BIB 172349
Status: Available