Hotel lobbies and lounges : the architecture of professional hospitality / [edited by] Tom Avermaete and Anne Massey.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-23) and index.

Introduction -- hotel lobbies: anonymous domesticity and public discretion -- Beyond the lobby: setting the stage for modernity -- the cosmos of the hotel / Franziska Bollerey -- Learning from Los Angeles: Hollywood hotel lobbies / Anne Massey -- The architectonics of the hotel lobby: the norms and forms of a public-private figure / Tom Avermaete -- The hotel lobby and local/global journeys / Greg Votolato -- Shifting spaces / Graeme Brooker -- Tracing tracks: illusion and reality at work in the lobby / Rajesh Heynickx -- Case studies: The Ritz, Paris: looking to eighteenth-century France through the lens of nineteenth-century historicism for a twentieth-century hotel lobby / Mark Hinchman -- Strand Palace Hotel, London / Lyanne Holcombe -- Imperial Hotel, Toykyo / Greg Votolato -- Grand Hotel Gooiland, 1936 / Tom Avermaete -- Hotel Le Corbusier: the extended lobby, the resident as guest and the Unité d'habitation as hotel / Nick Leech -- Watergate Hotel / Stefano Milani -- The Amsterdam Hilton Hotel: old Amsterdam's little America / Filip Geerts -- SAS Hotel, Copenhagen: Arne Jacobsen, 1955-60 / Joan Ockman -- The war lobby of Prora: KdF Seeban on Rügen / Filip Geerts -- Exploding the lobby: Hyatt Regency, Atlanta / Charles Rice -- The Viru Hotel, Tallinn: modernist in form, late socialist in content / Andres Kurg -- Hôtel des Thermes, Dax: Jean Nouvel and Emmanuel Cattani, 1992 / Hans Teerds -- Hotel Lakolk, Rømø, Denmark: Friis and Moltke, 1966 / Eva Strgaard -- Gramercy Park Hotel, New York: 2 Lexington Avenue, New York / Nicky Ryan -- Paramount, New York, 1990: interior design by Philippe Starck / Mark Pimlott -- Hotel II Palazzo: Venetian blind in Fukuoka / Filip Geerts and S. Umberto Barbieri -- The Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal, OMA: architecture after the crisis of the whole / Lara Schrijver -- CUBE Hotel, Tröpolach: an ultimate home base and stage-scape of the alpine event society / Michael Zinganel.