Jan 6, 12:41 am
2A (Architecture & Art) Magazine #4: Architecture + Tourism. Guest Editor and Call for submissions.
George has been invited to be the Guest Editor of the 2A (Architecture & Art) magazine #4: Architecture + Tourism
Call for publication submissions
The Dubai based 2A (Architecture & Art) magazine would like to invite submissions for its next issue on Architecture + Tourism. The magazine content is focused, but not restricted, to the architecture of the Gulf.
Introduction
Dubai’s Urbanism of Tourism
In Dubai there is little difference between holiday accommodation and housing. Architectural programs are becoming fused and undifferentiated. The morphology of the landscape and seascape is becoming fabricated to the point that it may soon be difficult to differentiate between the natural and the constructed. Dubai’s natural beach front is 45km long. Artificial islands will add another 1,500km of beach front, turning the coastline and the city into an inexhaustible holiday resort. The trajectory of the development of Dubai is reflected in its population, which has grown fifteen-fold since 1969: from 60,000 then to well over 1.3 million today. It is projected that, by 2010, Dubai’s tourist trade will accommodate around 15 million tourists per annum, serviced by more than 400 hotels.
As Briavel Holcomb points out in his essay “Marketing Cities for Tourism” (1999), in the tourist realm “it is the consumer, not the product that moves. Because the product is usually sold before the consumer sees it, the marking of tourism is intrinsically more significant than the conventional case where the product can be seen, tested, and compared to similar products in situ. It means that the representation of place, the images created for marketing, the vivid videos and persuasive prose of advertising texts, can be as selective and creative as the marketer can make them – a reality check comes only after arrival”.
Historically, the origin of modern vacation time can be traced back to the 1930s, when workers in France, for the first time, were given the right to twelve paid vacation days. Today, tourism has become a “total lifestyle experience.” The modern tourist resort is by definition a constructed one. The tourist’s perception seems to have shifted away from the pictorial 18th century: there is no longer the desire for the panoramic view. The excessively visual contemporary culture has made everything look familiar. Contemporary tourists are looking for familiarity: they want to feel at home in a strange place.
Suggested themes
Building types and Tourists’ Spaces:
Hotels / hotel typologies / hotel interiors / motels / tourist mega structures / tourist villages / beach resorts and landscaping / leisure centers / marinas
Global Tourism:
Mass tourism / tourism as lifestyle / advertising / transmitted imagery
Local Tourism:
Dubai / Gulf / Middle East / Asia
Geography / land / air / sea
Infrastructure / Master Plans of tourists’ developments
Urbanism and Tourism:
The tourist gaze / the tourist city / nomads / democratization and leisure
Landscape and Tourism:
Paradise / picturesque / island / desert / resort / oasis / exotic / authentic / escapism / adventure / beach / coast / leisure /
Experience and Tourism:
Travelogue / voyage / terminal / arrival / guided tour itinerary / site vs. sight / luggage / souvenir / map / blue-guide / camera / post-card / panorama
Cultural and Historic Tourism:
Monument / ruin / castle / museum / history / memory / arabesque / oriental / antiques bazaar / theme park
Submission
Submission types:
1- Essays and critical text on spaces for tourism: architectural, cultural, historical and social.
2- Presentation of design projects for tourism: hotels, resorts, leisure complexes, etc., by individual designers or architectural offices.
Submission dates:
1-Summary (500words) and 2 x sample low resolution images: January 15, 2007
2-Final submission (text and high resolution images): January 31, 2007
3-The magazine will be published by mid February 2007.
4-A seminar “Architecture + Tourism” is currently organized by 2A magazine in Dubai to take place on February 28, 2007. Among others, selected magazine contributors will be invited to make presentations.
Submission format:
All text in MS Word and all images in jpeg format
Enquiries and submission:
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George Katodrytis
Guest Editor of 2A #4: Architecture + Tourism
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