2024-05-01T20:16:15-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149962152/airbnb-is-turning-into-the-hotel-chains-it-disrupted Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-08-08T17:56:00-04:00 >2019-02-18T10:01:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/r4/r4jvtekb9zqfuf57.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Minimalist furniture. Craft beer and avocado toast. Reclaimed wood. Industrial lighting. Cortados [...] The interchangeability, ceaseless movement, and symbolic blankness that was once the hallmark of hotels and airports, qualities that led the French anthropologist Marc Aug&eacute; to define them in 1992 as "non-places," has leaked into the rest of life. [...] This confluence of style is being accelerated by companies that foster a sense of placelessness &hellip; Airbnb is a prominent example.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Nicholas Korody <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149956613/falling-through-the-sharing-economy-s-looking-glass-and-into-an-ocean-of-unpaid-gendered-domestic-labor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">previously explored&nbsp;this phenomenon</a>, of supposedly idiosyncratic Airbnb styling converging on the generic.</p><p>Related on Archinect:</p><ul><li><a title="Airbnb turns to urban planning as it looks towards the future of home-sharing" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149961108/airbnb-turns-to-urban-planning-as-it-looks-towards-the-future-of-home-sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Airbnb turns to urban planning as it looks towards the future of home-sharing</a></li><li><a title="After allegations of racial discrimination and #AirbnbWhileBlack fallout, Airbnb looks inward" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149949227/after-allegations-of-racial-discrimination-and-airbnbwhileblack-fallout-airbnb-looks-inward" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">After allegations of racial discrimination and #AirbnbWhileBlack fallout, Airbnb looks inward</a></li><li><a title="Ikea and Airbnb: a match made in globalized heaven?" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/138800384/ikea-and-airbnb-a-match-made-in-globalized-heaven" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ikea and Airbnb: a match made in globalized heaven?</a></li><li><a title="Neighbor, can you spare a dime? CityLab conference considers sharing economy's urban impact" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/110733077/neighbor-can-you-spare-a-dime-citylab-conference-considers-sharing-economy-s-urban-impact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neighbor, can you spare a dime? CityLab conference considers sharing economy's urban impact</a></li></ul>