46 Travel
Travel in all its forms: Barcelona tourism, postwar German radar sites, visiting buildings and sites by Palladio, travelling by road, travelling to Rome. Travelling theory, travelling to do drawings, travelling ideas about landscapes and gardens, migration routes, shipping routes. Walking in Dublin, in Northern Ireland, in Maine: walking as travel, no matter how short, or how local.
on site review 46: architecture and travel
travel — where this issue started: sketchbooks, kodachrome slides, the romantic tradition of the eighteenth century Grand Tour considered an essential part of becoming a civilised being. Has much changed since?
Francis Towne. Isleworth, Middlesex 1739 - 1816 London
Castel Madama, above the River Aniene, near Tivoli
Pen and grey ink and watercolour, on laid paper, signed, dated and inscribed verso: Castello Madamo / No. 2. / April 22. 1781 / Light coming in from the right hand. / Francis Towne
235 by 324 mm
Why do we travel? Is it to see new things? to rack up a gazillion photographs? to touch something elemental about unfamiliarity? to leave the quotidian behind for a while?
What, historically, did travel bring to architecture?
What do studios abroad, obligatory offerings for any self-respecting architecture school, bring to the study of architecture?
Does travel always imply distance?
Is travel a challenge or a pleasure? Is a challenge a pleasure? Is pleasure a challenge?
Is there anything essentially imperialistic about travel?
Is emigration travel or displacement? What does travel displace?
Peter Cook once titled a lecture: ‘I travel to find what I already know’. Is this the promise, or the danger, of travel?
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