Sight / site: framing Aotearoa/New Zealand tourist architecture

Abstract

This report explores the validity of comparing Post-Industrial Architectural Tourist strategies with Architecture built in New Zealand. Citing specifically the Guggenheim Museum in the Basque city of Bilbao, and Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand. Constructed as a journey, the overarching memory of the trip suggests that to compare the two destinations raises questions of the differences between the sites and contends that the institutions exist in different, but not entirely separate paradigms. A shortened version of this paper was presented at The Twentieth Century Urban Planning Experience Conference at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, 15 - 18 July 1998.