Architectural Tourism

Site-Seeing, Itineraries and Cultural Heritage

Shelley Hornstein

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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
20 November 2020

History of architecture; Museums & museology; Tourism industry

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.

Illustrated 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.

By: Shelley Hornstein
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781848222274
ISBN 10: 1848222270
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 20 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. 1: Oh the Places You’ll Go! 2: World Heritage Sites, National Identity, and What we Choose to Remember 3: Romancing the Stone: The Guidebook and Architectural Place 4: Monuments as Intangible or Tangible Heritage Tourism 5: The Bilbao Effect, Starchitecture and The Rise of the Designer Museum 6: No Place Like Home 7: To End with an Exceptional Architectural Tourism Story

Shelley Hornstein is Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar of Architectural History and Visual Culture at York University, Canada.