Experience-based architecture

摘要

Architecture has the ability to accentuate and even create unique experiences which drive tourism. However, in a climate where too much tourism can contribute to the degradation and destruction of place values, future demand will require models in which architecture must contribute to the protection, maintenance and regeneration of those values that make places unique. Of the many reasons people travel, one of the strongest is our desire to have unique, authentic experiences. In an experience-based economy, differences born out of evolutionary pressures and geographic separation become an advantage in creating place-based uniqueness. And architecture is, in many ways, an embodiment of this uniqueness - a manifestation of culture, tradition, innovation, economics, identity and, ultimately, place. In this context, it is not surprising then that architecture plays a lead role in tourism - not only through the historical vernacular but also the contemporary icon.