Haworth New Office Furniture System: Pattern Language for a New Generation of Office Furniture
01/05/198534-page in-house sketch of a Pattern Language with 64 patterns structured in two groups: Group One “The Character and Layout of Offices” and Group Two “Physical Shape and Substance of the Furniture”. It includes two copies, the second one with some handwritten notes.
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Designing with Patterns and Generic Rules for Making Centers
Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...
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Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages
A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Basic Sketch of Theory and Physical Characteristics of the Office Furniture
01/09/1985
41-page early report addressing the following six topics: 1) Fifty Key Elements; 2) Customer Variables and Builder Variables; 3) Price of Variables; 4) Manufacturing of Elements; 5) Speed of Production; 6) Franchised Local Production Shops; 7) Cuttable Modifiable Materials.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Manual for Layout of Office Furniture
01/01/1985
34-page manual addressing the workers and managers in an office, with instructions that allow them to create a new, and better environment for themselves. The document contains nine layout steps describing the process to be followed. In addition a 60-page earlier ...
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The Personal Workplace: A New System of Office Furniture for the 21st Century
01/01/1986
324-page document that describes the theory and practice of a new kind of workplace. It is organized in two main parts, as follows: Introduction; Part One: Practice – 1. Examples of the new workplace in practice; 2. Available parts and ...