Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: After Christopher Alexander’s many recent occasions that work was stopping due to issues, this letter is stating the end of Herman Miller, Inc. funding in support of the Personal Workplace Project, effective 30-Nov-1989. It comes after a long struggle to gain agreement on issues of compensation, royalties, overheads, budget, and funding

Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

Herman Miller, Inc. - Rob Harvey, Vice President

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Theree design principles guided the development of the project: 1) Layout of the personal work space by their users in order to meet their own personal needs; this process is achievable through the use of a computer program developed at C.E.S. which carries a worker through the design process. 2) Use of flexible manufacturing techniques, which allow individualisation of each piece of furniture, without increasing costs; the purpose of this feature is to eliminate the modularity that is part and parcel of current systems. 3) The basis of design is the real human needs and desires, not on the latest trend.

Generic rules for office layout process Use of full scale mock-ups Fabrication of full size furniture prototypes and office rooms by C.E.S. Design Development drawings done after fabrication

Gary Miller, Robert Harvey, Herman Miller Inc., Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

D.J. DePree CEO, Herman Miller Inc., Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

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Gary Black, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Robert Harvey, Herman Miller Inc., Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

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