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Book: Building Type Basics for Hospitality Facilities
Staff -- Interior Design, 4/17/2002 12:01:00 PM
reviewed by Stanley Abercrombie
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Building Type Basics for Hospitality Facilities |
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New York: John Wiley by Stephen A. Kliment 178 pages, many b&w illustrations plus 16-page color portfolio; $70.00 Buy at Amazon.com for $70.00. |
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Hotel Design: Planning and Development |
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co. by Walter A. Rutes, Richard H. Penner, and Lawrence Adams 422 pages, many b&w illustrations plus 32-page color portfolio; $100.00 Buy at Amazon.com for $70.00. |
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Hip Hotels: Budget |
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New York: Thames & Hudson by Herbert Ypma 246 pages, 512 illustrations, 411 in color; $29.95 paperbound. Buy at Amazon.com for $20.97. |
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In 1985 Andrée Putman designed Morgan's Hotel in New York, soon followed by a succession of small hotels by Philippe Starck, and a whole new standard in hotel design was established. The hotel environment would no longer be judged by its quantities of velvet and gilt, but also by its quotients of adventure and imagination. Even in the most liberated examples, however, both public and back-of-the-house facilities are still subject to a complex array of guidelines, code requirements, checklists, and principles of function and economics. Here are three new books with three different slants on the subject. The most thorough and potentially useful, perhaps, is Hotel Design: Planning and Development, its authors including Walter A. ('Wally') Rutes, whose work experience has been not only at design firms such as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill but also at hotel chains such as Sheraton, Ramada, and Inter-Continental. The present book is an expansion and revision of the same team's Hotel Planning and Design, published in 1985. The first half describes the characteristics of a dozen different hotel types (downtown, suburban, resort, convention, etc.). A second section presents criteria for guest room floors, bathroom equipment, food and beverage outlets, laundries, parking facilities, and many other aspects of the modern hotel. Forty pages are devoted to management and development issues, and extensive appendices add information on environmental planning, budget coordination, market trends, forecasts of net operating income, and more. Illustrations throughout show a wide range of design types and design quality. Hospitality Facilities is part of a new Building Type Basics series being edited by Stephen A. Kliment, former editor of Architectural Record. In it, various experts consider different aspects of current hotel design: Brian McDonough gives an overall perspective of the field, including hotel functions, project teams, and various phases of the design, construction, and postconstruction processes; groups of other authors then focus on specific hotel types such as luxury, resort, limited-service, casinos, and conference centers. An appendix summarizes the 'Principal Planning and Design Characteristics of Hospitality Facilities,' and, in addition to a conventional index, endpapers offer a 'Quick Index to Twenty Essential Questions.' The book is an early example of what promises to be a smart and useful series. Considerably less serious but considerably more attractive than those two compilations of standards and guidelines is Hip Hotels: Budget, part of a series that has already looked at city hotels, escape hotels, and hotels in France. 'Hip,' as used here, is an acronym for 'highly individual properties,' and so they are, all in the post-Putman spirit. |
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Interior Design Magazine, October, 2001
Classification: Hospitality Design
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