Hotel resorts in the canary islands: creating a vernacular city on the insular landscape. Heritage distortion, aesthetical fiction of atlanticity or tourist attraction
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Martín López, DavidEditorial
Documentación y Conservación del Movimiento Moderno (DOCOMOMO)
Date
2018Sponsorship
DOCOMOMO INTERNACIONALAbstract
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his paper analyses the architecture and urbanism of new
touristic areas in The Canary Islands, Spain, and its particular
integration into the insular landscape. The current use of At
lantic vernacular regionalisms as the main stylistic resources
for seaside resorts, transmit a false identity of the new coastal
landscape, principally at Tenerife and Gran Canaria. At the
same time, it promotes an important historical distortion of
the notion of heritage in the whole archipelago. This new
aesthetic, based on the mimesis and plagiarism of the most
important typologies of the Canarian heritage, has extremely
disturbed the contemporary landscape perception of these
Atlantic Islands, through a process that can be considered
unique in the regions of the Atlantic Ocean