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Open Plan - A Design History of the American Office (Hardcover)
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Open Plan - A Design History of the American Office (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Histories of Design
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Originally inspired by a progressive vision of a working
environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has
since come to be associated with some of the most dehumanizing and
alienating aspects of the modern office. Author Jennifer
Kaufmann-Buhler traces the history and evolution of the American
open plan from the brightly-colored office landscapes of the 1960s
and 1970s to the monochromatic cubicles of the 1980s and 1990s,
analyzing it both as a design concept promoted by architects,
designers, and furniture manufacturers, and as a real work space
inhabited by organizations and used by workers. The thematically
structured chapters each focus on an attribute of the open plan to
highlight the ideals embedded in the original design concept and
the numerous technical, material, spatial, and social problems that
emerged as it became a mainstream office design widely used in
public and private organizations across the United States.
Kaufmann-Buhler’s fascinating new book weaves together a variety
of voices, perspectives, and examples to capture the tensions
embedded in the open plan concept and to unravel the assumptions,
expectations, and inequities at its core.
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