Naslov
Grand Budapest Hotel. Grand Hotels, Tourism and Cities at the Turn of the Century between Europe and European Outposts in the World

Autori
Cornaglia, Paolo ; Damjanović, Dragan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
VIII Congresso AISU. La città, il viaggio, il turismo. Percezione, produzione e trasformazione

Mjesto i datum
Napulj, Italija, 07.09.2017. - 09.09.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Ostalo

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Hoteli, arhitektura, kulturna povijest
(Hotels, Architecture, Cultural History)

Sažetak
The Grand Budapest Hotel, an imaginary grand hotel in an invented location in Central Europe, where fuel is called fuelitz, represents – in the movie by Wes Anderson – the quintessence of these monumental architectures, the obsessions and the eccentricity of the guests, the rules of the waiters and the staff. The Grand Hotel, the palace, is the place where the goals of the western civilization are celebrated, in the extremely far countries is a bastion of a specific way of life, the last outpost where – as Karl Emil Franzos wrote about Czernowitz – you can find a clean table cloth. The hotels are the right place where the élite tourism can find a consolidated way of life. They are a sort of an international system of luxury of the society between 19th and 20th century, a hosting place for foreigners – sometimes in thermal cities – and a core of the social life, in a rich mix well reconstructed, for instance, in Hotel Sacher. The Last Party of the Old Europe (Monika Czernin, 2014). A place where Stefan Zweig (whose work inspired Grand Budapest Hotel) didn’t go, because, at the end, it was too aristocratic, as he states in his autobiography (The world of yesterday. Memories of a European, 1942), a place where past and present, reality and fiction interconnects, as in Alain Resnais’ Last year at Marienbad. David Watkin (1984) and Elaine Demby (2002) wrote about the architecture of the great palaces, modern royal palaces in an age where empires and monarchies vanish one by one. Watkins stops his investigation at the former Iron Curtain, but Denby opens to the near East and the Orient Denby. In this session we suggest a focus (architectural models and typologies, luxury parameters, urban and social role played) not only on the great European capitals but, mostly, and in a comparative way, on the examples in less central cities, places developed as tourist resorts, and cities in the far western outposts in Asia and other continents, colonized and visited by European travellers.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti

Napomena
Riječ je o sesiji na skupu AISU-a 2017 koju sam
organizirao u suradnji s profesorom Paolom
Cornagliom, Politecnico di Torino, Italija.

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