Architourism : authentic, escapist, exotic, spectacular / edited by Joan Ockman and Salomon Frausto ; designed by Brett Snyder. - 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm

"A Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture.".

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

379133297X 9783791332970

2005903631


Architecture and tourism

NA2543.T68 / A735 2005

720.9