Hotel Lobbies and Lounges
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"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. Hotel Lounges and Lobbies: The Architecture of Professional Hospitality explores 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. Including case studies addressing contemporary developments…mehr

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"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. Hotel Lounges and Lobbies: The Architecture of Professional Hospitality explores 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. Including case studies addressing contemporary developments in hotel planning and design, and illustrated throughout, this volume is an innovative and insightful contribution to architectural and interior design literature"--
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Autorenporträt
Tom Avermaete is Associate Professor of Architecture at the TU Delft (Netherlands), with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. Tom is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and is an editor of OASE Architectural Journal. He is also an initiator of the research and exhibition project In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After (Berlin, 2008; Casablanca, 2009; Marseille, 2013). Anne Massey is Professor of Design at Middlesex University, UK. Anne has published widely on the subject of interior design and she is also co-editor of the academic journal, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, launched by Berg in 2010. Anne has contributed to various media, including broadcasts on BBC Radio 4, and appearances on TV including BBC4's Glamour's Golden Age and Channel 4's Titanic: The Mission.