Airbnb makes it easy for architecture fans to sleep in style with their favorite architects

Cookie-cutter hotels can be the bane of a travelling architecture buff's existence: all those awkward proportions and functional but formless spaces can really get on your nerves. <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/airbnb" target="_blank">Airbnb</a> is bringing a better sleeping experience to people who appreciate their dentils, balusters, and trusses. Now, you can rent architectural gems by the night, and sleep in homes designed with form in mind, by architectural innovators such as <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/frank+lloyd+wright" target="_blank">Frank Lloyd Wright</a>, <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/michelle-kaufmann/">Michelle Kaufman</a>, and Danish architect <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/bjarke-ingels/">Bjarke Ingels</a>.

If something a little offbeat and exotic is your calling, try out the <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/530250?s=vx_O" target="_blank">Seashell House on Isla Mujeres, Mexico</a>. This Eduardo Ocampo home is an eye-catcher, which means you'll have to get used to passing tourists looking in on you as you sunbathe next to the pool. A small price to pay for such a unique retreat.

Did you ever think you'd have the chance to <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/1584509?locale=en" target="_blank">sleep in Chicago's Florsheim Mansion for the Arts</a>? Thanks to Airbnb, now you can, but it will cost you. At $1255 per night it's not exactly budget accommodation, but it can sleep 11 guests, so round up your friends to share the financial burden.

This 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/13783?locale=en" target="_blank">Frank Lloyd Wright LIFE Magazine Dream house</a> really will let you live the dream, if only for a few nights. Renting from $395 per night, you and five friends can gaze out over the marsh upon which the house is built or snuggle in front of the fireplace.

The <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/24779?locale=en" target="_blank">Off-Grid Glass House in Grass Valley, CA</a> is a lakefront retreat on eight acres of forested land. Designed by architect Michelle Kaufmann, the one-bedroom home sleeps two guests and rents from $265 per night.

The <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/2442083?locale=en" target="_blank">Soapstone Woodland River Retreat</a> in Nehalem, Oregon, features a 20-ft vaulted ceiling with skylight over the master bedroom and a writer's cube (Cheryl Strayed wrote here!) , perched 40 feet over the main house and perfectly oriented north, south, east, and west. This two bedroom retreat sleeps up to eight guests and rents from $195 per night.

The <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/1129425" target="_blank">Temple House in South Beach, Miami</a>, is a bit of a budget buster at $6500 per night. But if you want to sleep in the largest single family home in South Beach, where hundreds of celebrities have slept before you, you need to ante up. Temple House sleeps up to ten guests in four bedrooms and rents from $6500 per night.

This <a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/1929966?locale=en&amp;s=XKZ6" target="_blank">two-bedroom apartment, inside the award winning VM-house</a> designed by architect Bjarke Ingels is in the Ørestad City area in Copenhagen, Denmark. It has floor-to-ceiling windows, a large communal rooftop and sleeps up to four guests for $124 per night, an absolute steal in this expensive city.