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Architecture and Tourism
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Architecture and Tourism
Perception, Performance and Place
Edited by
D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren
Oxford•New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Architecture and tourism : perception, performance and place / edited
by D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-85973-704-8 (cloth) — ISBN 1-85973-709-9 (pbk.)
1. Architecture and tourism. I. Lasansky, D. Medina. II. McLaren,
Brian D., 1956–
NA2543.T68A73 2004
720’.1’03—dc22
2004006122
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ISBN 185973704 8 (hardback)
ISBN 185973709 9 (paperback)
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors xi
Foreword
Davydd J. Greenwood xv
Introduction
D. Medina Lasansky 1
PartI Defining a Canon and a Mode of Perception
1 Reproduction, Fragmentation, and Collection: Rome and the
Origin of Souvenirs
Sarah Benson 15
2 Early Travelers in Greece and the Invention of Medieval
Architectural History
Kostis Kourelis 37
3 Performing Abroad: British Tourists in Italy and their Practices,
1840–1914
Jill Steward 53
PartII Politics of Pilgrimage
4 From Tripoli to Ghadames: Architecture and the Tourist Experience of
Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya
Brian McLaren 75
5 A Pilgrimage to the Alcázar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and
Propaganda in Franco’s Spain
Miriam Basilio 93
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Contents
6 Authenticating Dungeons, Whitewashing Castles: The Former Sites of
the Slave Trade on the Ghanaian Coast
Cheryl Finley 109
PartIII Packaging Place
7 From Photographic Fragments to Architectural Illusions at the 1929
Poble Espanyol in Barcelona
Jordana Mendelson 129
8 Simulating France, Seducing the World: The Regional Center at the
1937 Paris Exposition
Deborah D. Hurtt 147
9 Tourist Geographies: Remapping Old Havana
D. Medina Lasansky 165
PartIV Performance
10 Sweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort
Tim Edensor and Uma Kothan 189
11 Doing it Right: Postwar Honeymoon Resorts in the Pocono
Mountains
Barbara Penner 207
PartV The Postmodern Imagination
12 New Politics of the Spectacle: “Bilbao” and the Global Imagination
Joan Ockman 227
13 Egypt on Steroids: Luxor Las Vegas and Postmodern Orientalism
Jeffrey Cass 241
Index 265
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List of Figures
1.1 Souvenirs for sale at the Colosseum, Rome. Summer 2002.
Photograph by author. 16
1.2 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta della vasta Fontana di Trevi, from
Vedute di Roma, mid-eighteenth century. By permission of the
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library, Ithaca, NY. 20
1.3 Pietro Bracci, collection of cameo casts reproducing objects and
architecture from the Vatican Museum, c. 1775. White plaster.
Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
(2001.M.27). 22
1.4 Pietro Martire Felini, woodcut depicting Michelangelo’s Moses from
San Pietro in Vincoli, reprinted from Trattato Nuovo delle Cose
Maravigliose Dell’Alma Città Di Roma, Rome, 1615, p. 337. Rome,
American Academy Library. 26
1.5 Roman workshop, collector’s cabinet with eighteen views of Rome,
last quarter of eighteenth century. Wood, bronze, and painted
parchment. Rome, Museo di Roma. 32
2.1 Saint Nicholas in Mystras, from André Couchaud, Choix d’églises
byzantines en Grèce, Paris: Didron, 1842, pl. 27, fig. 1. 45
2.2 View of Kyparissia, from William Gell Narrative of a Journey in the
Morea, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823, p. 1. 47
2.3 Gabriel Millet (second row, second from left) aboard the Troude on
April 1893, from Georges Radet, L’histoire et l’oevre de l’École
française d’Athènes, Paris: A. Fontemoing, 1901, fig. 254. 49
3.1 Postcard c.1905. Paul Hey “Tourists on the Rialto bridge”, published
by Otto Zieher, Munich. Collection of the author.. 60
3.2 “Snob writing his name on the roof of Milan cathedral” (Doyle,
1854: 56). Author’s copy. 62
3.3 Postcard c. 1905. “Moonlight scene of the Forum” (advertising Rome
and back for 10 guineas. Published by Thomas Cook). Collection of
the author. 68
4.1 Libyan Tourism and Hotel Association, Vacation Combinations in
Libya, travel brochure, 1937. Collection of the author. 78
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List of Figures
4.2 Oriental dance, Arab Café, Suq al-Mushir, Tripoli, Libya, postcard,
1937. Collection of the author. 82
4.3 Florestano Di Fausto, Hotel Rumia, Jefren, Libya, 1934. The
Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection – Fondazione Regionale Cristoforo
Colombo, Genoa, Italy. 85
4.4 Florestano Di Fausto, Hotel Nalut, Nalut, Libya (1935), postcard,
1937. Collection of the author. 86
4.5 Florestano Di Fausto and Stefano Gatti-Casazza, Hotel
Ain-el-Fras, Ghadames (1935), postcard, 1937. Collection of the
author. 88
5.1 Postcard reproducing a view of the patio prior to 1936, from the
series Alcázar de Toledo, 24 Vistas en Huecograbado, Madrid: Jalón
Angel and Hauser y Manet, ca. 1939. Collection of the author. 94
5.2 Postcard reproducing a view of the patio following the siege, from the
series Alcázar de Toledo, 24 Vistas en Huecograbado, Madrid: Jalón
Angel and Hauser y Manet, ca. 1939. Collection of the author. 94
5.3 Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, Portrait of General Francisco
Franco, 1940. Collection Museo del Ejército, Madrid. Reproduced
with permission. 103
6.1 View of cannons, Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, 1999. Photograph by
author. 112
6.2 Plaque of remembrance and wreath, Elmina Castle, Ghana,
1999. Photograph by author. 117
6.3 Reenactment, Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, 1999. Photograph by
author. 122
7.1 Bird’s eye view of the Poble Espanyol. Courtesy of the Arxiu Històric
del Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. 130
7.2 Photograph taken by Francesc Folguera and Ramón Reventós of the
Utebo Bell Tower in Zaragoza, Aragaon. Fons Plandiura LP-26-45.
Courtesy of the Photographic Archive of the Arxiu Històric de la
Cuitat de Barcelona. Photographed by Jordi Calafell. 136
7.3 Photograph of the Poble Espanyol in construction, with the
reconstruction of the Utebo Bell Tower visible in the background.
Courtesy of the Photographic Archive of the Arxiu Històric de la
Cuitat de Barcelona. 137
7.4 Women and pony rides in the main plaza of the Poble Espanyol.
Courtesy of the Arxiu Històric del Col.legi d’Arquitectes de
Catalunya. 138
8.1 Regional Center, aerial view. Album Officiel, Paris: La Photolith,
1937. 148
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List of Figures
8.2 Regional Center, master plan. Rapport Général, vol 8, Pl. 3,
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1938–1940. 152
8.3 Regional Center, Alsace Pavilion. Postcard, 1937. Collection of the
author. 154
8.4 Regional Center, Flandre-Artois Pavilion. L’Architecture, Centre
Régional, Paris: Alexis Sinjon, 1937. 155
9.1 Tourists seated on the steps of the Habana Capitol, 2002, negative
(left) and the reworked print (right). Collection of the author. 166
9.2 Habanaguanex brochure advertising the historic hotels operated
by the Office of the Historian, Habana, c. 2002. 175
9.3 Plaza Vieja, Habana. The restored fountain is visible behind the
fence. 180
10.1 Painting of Creole Plantation Landscape, lobby of Sugar Beach
Resort, Mauritius. Photograph by Tim Edensor, 2002. 191
10.2 Themed performance on the steps of the Manor House, Sugar
Beach Resort, Mauritius. Photograph by Uma Kothari, 2002. 193
11.1 Promotional material for Honeymoon Haven, 1967. Collection of
the author. 210
11.2 Pocono Gardens Lodge advertisement, Bride’s Magazine, Spring
1965, p. 244. 215
11.3 Cove Haven advertisement, Bride’s Magazine, April/May 1966,
p. 181. 216
11.4 Honeymooners at Honeymoon Haven, 1967. Collection of the
author. 217
12.1 Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. 228
12.2 Cover, New York Times Magazine, with story on the Guggenheim
Bilbao by Herbert Muschamp, September 7, 1997. © The New
York Times. Reproduced by permission. 232
13.1 Luxor Las Vegas, 1996. Courtesy of Luxor Las Vegas. 242
13.2 Talking camels at entrance to Giza Galleria, Luxor Las Vegas,
2002. Photograph by author. 249
13.3 Series of columns at Pharaoh’s Pheast Buffet, Luxor Las
Vegas. Photograph by author. 256
13.4 Lobby mural behind registration desk, Luxor Las Vegas,
2002. Photograph by author. 258
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