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Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The Architecture of Professional Hospitality

by Tom Avermaete

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Hotel spaces as social architecture

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Hotel spaces as social architecture

Hotels are examined here through the public interiors that shape their role in urban life. The book connects the history and material construction of hotels with the social and cultural practices associated with them, then turns to contemporary planning and design through interviews and case studies. Its attention to hotel lobbies and lounges places hospitality within the broader history of architecture and interior culture, making the volume relevant both as a study of built environments and as an introduction to the ideas behind their design. Illustrations accompany the discussion.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Architecture and interior-design students or practitioners seeking historical and theoretical context
  • Readers interested in hotels as urban and cultural spaces
  • Those looking for case studies and interviews on contemporary hotel planning and design

Themes

Hotel architecture and interiorsHospitality and urban lifeMaterial cultureContemporary hotel planning and design

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Book overview

This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture.

Hotels occupy a particular place in popular imagination. As a place of exclusive sociability and bohemian misery, a site of crime and murder and as a hiding place for illicit liaison, the hotel has embodied the dynamism of the metropolis since the eighteenth century.

This bookexplores the architectural significance of hotels throughout history and how their material construction has reflected and facilitated the social and cultural practices for which they are renowned. Contemporary developments in the planning and design of hotels are addressed through a series of interviews and case studies.

Illustrated throughout, this book is an innovative and important contribution to architectural and interior design theory literature.

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