Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition [Hardcover]

Walter A. Rutes (Author), Richard H. Penner (Author), Lawrence Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2001

Hospitality is the world's fastest growing industry, and business—and pleasure travelers are demanding more diverse hotels, resorts and leisure-time amenities around the globe.

This book explores the latest trends in hotel planning and design, capturing the vast range of today's most imaginative creations, from tower-high guestrooms to lavish desert villas to exotic resorts nestled by tropical-island waters. It outlines the essential criteria architects and designers must meet when planning for a wide variety of hotel types, and presents the most up-to-date technical information as well as detailed illustrations, photographs, and original plans. Highlighting the key concepts behind emerging trends and how each designer's vision fits into the development of the industry as a whole, the authors equip today's developer, architect, designer, and hotel executive with a comprehensive and practical guide to the world of hospitality design. 60 color photos / 200 b+w photos and line drawings

Editorial Reviews

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'Even the most experienced executive traveller will gasp at some of the images in this high quality volume, which opens with some breath-taking photographs of contemporary, international hotel design. Students and professionals of design, architecture and even tourism will find this an invaluable, comprehensive and practical overview of international hotel design and development.'
Project Scotland --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Walter Rutes lives in Scottsdale, Arizona

Richard Penner in Ithaca, New York.

Lawrence Adams lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 468 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (July 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393730557
• ISBN-13: 978-0393730555
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely terrific!!, August 28, 2001

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This review is from: Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition (Hardcover)

WOW! I have a copy of the 1980s version of Rutes and Penner--this is a totally new edition, all new photography, etc.--and consider it the 'Bible' for hotel design. But the new edition is twice as big and full of current examples and information. It has 32 pages of gorgeous color photos of great hotels and resorts from around the world. The text is in three main sections: Hotel Types (downtown, resorts, conference centers, luxury hotels, casino hotels, etc.); Design Guide (planning and design information for all areas of the hotel); and Development Guide (feasibility, programming, future trends). In addition, there are lots of appendices and sidebars from such people as Ian Schrager, I.M. Pei, Robert Stern, and John Portman. I've looked at other hotel design books in the stores and there isn't anything that is so complete or current. There are other books on boutique hotels, with lots of pictures, but nothing with this global coverage of all types of lodging properties. With well over 400 pages, this book will be the new Bible for hotel design. I can't imagine a better choice for anyone involved with the hotel development, architecture, or interior design.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and beautiful, September 3, 2001

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Michael Parsons (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition (Hardcover)

I found this in the Rizzoli bookstore and had to slit the shrinkwrap to see what the book was like. Then sat down in a soft chair to browse through it but after a half hour decided it made more sense to just buy it and read it at home. Not disappointed. The book covers everything in great detail - lots of text - with pictures of hotels from the Chilean Andes to London and Paris and New York. A "must have" for people interested in travel and hotels and architecture.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect !!, December 21, 2006

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This review is from: Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition (Hardcover)

I was assigned to teach at the Master Degree class on "Facility Management" subject focusing on Hotel Facility. I have gone through several books regarding hotel design. I think this book is the best of all. Any designer who reads this book back to back will certainly understand the whole concept. It is not only about how to design the hotel as an architecture piece, but the reader will also understand the hospitality business. This book also covers the design and management issues of related topics such as "Restaurant", "Entertainment Venue" in the hotel. It is the 'must have' for all architects who want to design a hotel efficiently. It can also be a good book for anyone who is in the hospitality business and currently in charge of renovating or upgrading the hotel space; or the hotel's representative who need to communicate with architects or interior designer. This book can be the great tool to evaluate the result of the hotel construction project or even to 'correct' it. The tables and formulas for space calculation in this book are easy enough for anyone to understand. This book can be of great use to all building design professionals. It can also be a valuable one for any people who is interested in hotel business.