ABSTRACT

This book showcases small hotels, all located in the United States, designed by architects who use light and materials in interesting and intentional ways. The designs also deliberately connect to their local history, context, or land – in many cases all three. Both the architecture and the operations harmonize with the place, whether that is a bustling city, small town, or natural area. Many are new buildings but some are adaptive reuse projects or renovations of historic properties, extending the connectivity of the place into the future.

A condensed history of lodging helps to place the many typologies and histories of hospitality in relationship to world events and includes the many factors that influence hotel development such as business practices, technology, and even politics. Hotels are influenced by larger trends and innovations in hospitality such as the emergence of a variety of creative possibilities for future travel. A final chapter includes speculation on travel trends and encourages us all to wander more intentionally.

chapter 11|8 pages

Hotel Magdalena

Lake | Flato Architects

chapter 2|8 pages

Wild Rice Retreat

Salmela Architect

chapter 3|8 pages

Rolling Huts

Olson Kundig

chapter 4|6 pages

Geneseo Inn

Ecotech Design

chapter 5|6 pages

Carpenter Hotel

Specht Architects

chapter 6|6 pages

Harmon Guest House

David Baker Architects

chapter 7|8 pages

Avalon Hotel

KoningEizenberg

chapter 8|8 pages

The Revolution Hotel

PCA/Prellwitz Chilinski Associates

chapter 9|6 pages

Tourists

Hank

chapter 10|8 pages

AutoCamp Joshua Tree

HKS Narrative Design Studio

chapter 11|8 pages

Kinship Landing

Echo Architecture + Interiors

chapter 12|8 pages

Eaton DC

CallisonRTKL Gachot Studios Parts and Labor Design

chapter 13|8 pages

Hutton Brickyards

Kristina Dousharm Architecture

chapter 14|8 pages

Society Hotel Bingen

Waechter Architecture

chapter 15|8 pages

21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City

Deborah Berke Partners

chapter 16|10 pages

Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm

John Gaw Meem Moule & Polyzoides Atkin Olshin Schade Architects

chapter 17|8 pages

Hotel Greystone

Shulman + Associates Bowen Holly Salt Hotels

chapter 18|6 pages

The Robey

Antunovich Associates Nicolas Schuybroek Architects Marc Merckx Interiors

chapter 19|7 pages

Guild House Hotel

Moto Designshop Rohe Creative