Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Photographs of office layout process by users

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 ...

In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...

54-page document which provides examples of office layouts made by users of offices, demonstrating the results of the proposed layout process. Its Table of Contents are the following: 1. Introduction; 2. Process; 3. Examples of Offices Designed by Different Managers; ...

Sketches with brief comments on the existing work conditions, twenty six pages in total, produced by the thirteen participants in the C.E.S. office experiment, for testing the office layout rules; the participants were Pirko Luckhesie – Architect, Alex Bloom – ...