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The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work (Paperback)
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The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work (Paperback)
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Immerse yourself with architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen
as they journey through a wide-ranging collection of the objects,
systems, and buildings that have occupied the American office space
since the advent of the internet. Through stories and speculations,
Idenburg and Suen expose the relationships between space, work, and
people, and explore the intentions that have driven the development
of office design for working humans. In twelve essays, this book
examines the spatial typologies and global phenomena that have
defined the office in the last half century. Topics include the
return of the work club, the rise of the corporate festival, the
way of the charismatic guru, the shattering of the time clock, and
the design of playgrounds for work. We cycle through Frank O.
Gehry's radical, playful spaces for digital nomads in the
advertising world, stagger under the weight of stacks of punch
cards, feel the fit of our bodies in the Aeron Chair, answer the
phone in Hugh Hefner's bed, and scroll through Lil Miquela's feed.
Photographic essays by Iwan Baan provide a visual post-occupancy
report on a range of canonical office projects, such as Marcel
Breuer's IBM campus in Florida and the Ford Foundation's urban
garden in Manhattan. Four intervening catalogs offer collections of
experimental workplace products, augural advertisements for office
building components, digital office components, and renderings of
speculative workplaces; each catalog bridges the reality of the
office and how we imagine its alternatives. This book is a
theoretical backdrop for architects as much as it is for
businesspeople and employees. With curiosity and skepticism, it
looks at the spaces and solutions that have been designed for human
work, tracing the transformation from work to occupation, from
punch cards to "playbor," from today's lived experience to
tomorrow's unpredictable, imagined futures.
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