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OASE 64
Landscape and Mass Tourism
Architectural Journal

Design: Karel Martens & Werkplaats Typografie, Illustrated (b/w), Paperback, sewn, 128 pages, Size: 17 x 24 cm
Text in Dutch and English, ISBN 90-5662-390-7, ISSN 0169-6238, € 20.00

The relationship between architecture and tourism has been the subject of ample research from the urban point of view, resulting in various theories about the 'tourist gaze'. Themes like identity and city branding are familiar to us all these days. The relationship between architecture and the touristic landscape has thus far received much less consideration. Now that the tourism is occupying the natural landscape en masse, it is no longer possible to safeguard the ideal of pure untouched nature. The touristic landscape is by definition a construct in which cultural and functional aspects have a role. Since the eighteenth century, the experience of a touristic landscape has increasingly become a physical one. An irreversible transformation of the landscape is the result. This edition of OASE focuses on architecture's contribution to the structuring of mass tourism in the context of landscape. Architecture frames the landscape and regiments the flow of tourists. A variety of interventions and strategies are reviewed, from mega--structures and infrastructure in ski resorts and Mediterranean holiday villages to nostalgic settlements in manmade miniature landscapes.

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