Architectural Tourism: Monumental Itineraries, Cultural Heritage, and Sites of Memory

by Shelley Hornstein

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, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848222270
• ISBN13: 9781848222274
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.7"