Architectural Styles
Parkitecture
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1900s-present
- Organic forms
- Ecological sustainability
- natural materials
- enhance the surrounding environment
- dynamic and adaptive surfaces that respond to environmental conditions
- USA
- Global equivalents
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Museums
- cultural
- mixed-use
- transport hub
- hotels
- lodges
- entrance stations
- visitor centers
- National Park Visitor Centers USA
- Treetop Walkway Grizedale Forest, UK
- Longmire Administration Building
- Chateau at Oregon Caves
- Arizona’s Grand Canyon watch tower
- Shadow Mountain Fire Lookout Trail
- Rim Village Crater Lake National Park
- Jordan Cottage, Saranac Lake [Adirondack]
- Brighton Town Hall [Adirondack]
- Norris Museum Yellowstone
- Madison Museum Yellowstone
- Eagle’s Store Yellowstone
- Glacier National Park
- Nisqually Suspension Bridge
- CCC Shelter Pokagon State Park
- Grand National Park Lodges
- Rustic Park Hotels & Inns
- Tourist Cabins & Auto Courts (Parkitecture Rustic)
- CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) -Built Campgrounds & Bunkhouses
- Railroad Resort Hotels in Park Settings
- Painted Desert Inn, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona,
- Massanutten Lodge Skyland Resort, Shenandoah National Park
- Knollwood Club [Adirondack]
- LeConte Memorial Lodge Yosemite
- Ahwahnee Hotel; Parsons
- Oscar Brown cabin Nisqually
- Memorial Lodge
- Many Glaciers Lodge
- El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon
- Mariposa Grove Cabin Yosemite
- Old Faithful Inn Yellowstone
- Pearson Cabin
- Lake McDonald Lodge
- Phantom Ranch
- Bright Angel Cabins
- Glacier Park Lodge
Adaptive Reuse
- Paradise Inn (adapted & expanded from service building) Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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