Hotel Lobbies and Lounges (eBook, ePUB)

The Architecture of Professional Hospitality
Redaktion: Avermaete, Tom; Massey, Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume in the Interior Architecture series 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136489211
• Artikelnr.: 49986611

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hotel Lobbies: Anonymous Domesticity and Public Discretion 1.
Beyond the Lobby: Setting the Stage for Modernity - The Cosmos of the Hotel
2. Learning from Los Angeles: Hollywood Hotel Lobbies 3. The Architectonics
of the Hotel Lobby: The Norms and Forms of a Public-Private Figure 4. The
Hotel Lobby and Local/Global Journeys 5. Shifting Spaces 6. Tracing Tacks:
Illusion and Reality at Work in the Lobby Case Studies 1. Hotel Ritz 2.
Strand Palace Hotel 3. Imperial Hotel 4. Hotel Gooiland 5. Hotel Le
Corbusier 6. Watergate Hotel 7. Hilton Hotel 8. SAS Hotel 9. KdF Prora 10.
Hyatt Regency Hotel 11. Viru Hotel 12. Hotel des Thermes 13. Hotel Lakolk
14. Gramercy Park Hotel 15. Hotel Paramount 16. Hotel Il Palazzo 17. Hotel
Seaterminal 18. Cube Hotels