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Destination architecture : the essential guide to 1000 contemporary buildings.
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ISBN: 9780714875354 071487535X Year: 2017 Publisher: London Phaidon

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This guide features 1,000 buildings in cities around the world, creating an unparalleled resource for any architect-- or armchair-traveler. It divides the world into eight regions, and the buildings are presented in a geographical sequence throughout the book. Country maps interspersed throughout each region indicate the location of individual projects. Short, descriptive text provides the name of the building, its architect, and completion date.


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Learning-through-touring
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ISBN: 9789460917776 9460917771 9460917755 9789460917752 9460917763 9789460917769 9789460917752 9789460917769 1280799250 9786613709646 Year: 2012 Publisher: Rotterdam Boston SensePublishers

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Learning-through-Touring uncovers ways in which people interact with the built environment by exploring the spaces around, between and within buildings. The key idea embodied in the book is that learning through touring is haptic –the learner is a physical, cognitive and emotional participant in the process. It also develops the concept that tours, rather than being finished products, are designed to evolve through user participation and over time. Part One of the book presents a series of analytical investigations into theories and practices of learning and touring that have then been developed to produce a set of conceptual methods for tour design. Projects that have tried and tested these methods are described in Part Two. Technologies that have been utilised as portable tools for learning-through-touring are illustrated both through historical and contemporary practices. In all of this, there is an underlying belief that what is formally presented to us by ‘authorities’ is open to self-discovery, questioning and independent enquiry. The book is particularly relevant for those seeking innovative ways to explore and engage with the built environment; mobile learning educators; learning departments in museums, galleries and historic buildings; organisations involved in ‘bridging the gap’ between architecture and public understanding and anyone who enjoys finding out new things about their environment.

Architecture and tourism : perception, performance, and place
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ISBN: 1859737099 1859737048 9781859737095 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Berg,


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Architectural tourism : site-seeing, itineraries and cultural heritage
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ISBN: 9781848222274 1848222270 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Lund Humphries

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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.


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Architectural Tourism : Building for Urban Travel Destinations
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ISBN: 3658060247 3658060239 Year: 2014 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler,

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Since the early times of travelling architecture does constitute an important force of attraction and a vital element in marketing. Until today destinations try to increase their market positions by means of the development and restoration of the built environment. However, architecture is characterised by an enduring presence with impacts on visitors and residents alike. Hence, on a sustainable basis it needs to chime with place and situation. Where modesty might be suitable for one destination, spectacular architecture could be a transformation catalyst or unique selling proposition for another. Destination developers have to be aware of the local requirements as well as the reciprocal relationship between the modern practice of tourism and the built environment. To address the complexity of architectural tourism, throughout the book this topic is subject of a controversial discussion and approached with a contextual and interdisciplinary view. Contents Tourism and the Built Environment Architectural Tourism in the Spatial and Temporal Urban Context Contemporary Architecture and the Destination Image Architectural Tourism and the Spectaculture Target Groups Researchers, lecturers and students of tourism, architecture, urbanism and marketing Planners, developers, marketers and managers of travel destinations, Tourists interested in architecture About the Author Dr. Jan Specht is Professor of Business Administration at IUBH International University in Munich, Germany. He is head of the degree programme “Tourism Management“.


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Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires
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ISBN: 0739176315 9780739176313 9780739176306 0739176307 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland

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This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices.

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