Course Material

Arch 201, Spring 1989: Student paper titled “Toward a New Office Archetype”

01/01/1989

Student Work, Paper

Paper loosely examines the process of determining a new archetype for an office building.

Content of

Academic Course 1 Items

Design studio on Office Building Design 1989

Students were asked to examine contemporary office buildings, specify their problems and propose a design process, which would generate a new archetype for office buildings. Emphasis to be given to the criteria and patterns which make the office spaces personal ...

References

Projects 1 Items

The Personal Workplace - New System of Office Furniture 1988 to 1990

Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

Office Furniture, Designed , Two personal offices with furniture prototypes built by C.E.S.

Herman Miller, the second largest manufacturer of office furniture in the United States, commissioned C.E.S. to develop the "personal workplace", a new system of furniture, which aimed at changing the nature of the American workplace completely. The emphasis was on ...