Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office

Architects to the Nation:

 The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office

2000 | 352 pages | HTML | 11,8 MB

This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge granite pile of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such "restorations" as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerable efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.

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Space 2: workplace

Space 2: workplace

2013 | English | 319 Pages | PDF | 104.60 MB

We spend a large proportion of our working hours at work which makes good workplace design crucial to projecting the right image in addition to putting us in the right mood and enhancing employee productivity. 

Space 2: Workplace features 51 projects from 33 international design firms in 18 countries (41 cities). Each project has been beautifully photographed and includes detailed plans alongside the designer's introduction.

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Smart Space Office Design

Smart Space Office Design

English / Chinese | 2010 | 376 pages | PDF | 51 MB

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Office Design (Design Books)

Office Design (Design Books)

At the beginning of the 19th century, Charles Fourrier observed that citizens' lives were marked not by the home but by the office; 200 years later, this somewhat eccentric statement expresses the reality of post-industrial society: In Western countries, one of the consequences of the globalization of the economy has been the concentration of workers in the tertiary sector; more than half of the population works in offices. 

Offices have become domestic, the relationship between workmates has become closer and their workplace seems increasingly like a club or house in which they spend the greater part of the day. All presented projects feature inspiring ideas of designing more efficient, modern and more pleasant working environments.
 

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Office Architecture + Design

Office Architecture + Design

English, German, French | 2009 | only 265 pages | PDF | 110,7 MB

Constant technological advances and the current focus on ecological considerations have had a strong impact on the construction of office buildings as well as the interior design of work spaces.

 Further decisive aspects beyond purely functional considerations of work organization are corporate identity, the creation of a positive and motivating working environment and very often also representative functions. 

Masterpieces: Office Architecture + Design, another volume of the new series Masterpieces presents 60 outstanding projects from all over the world. The reader will find carefully selected works from international established architectural firms as well as promising newcomers, documenting today's different developments regarding the construction and design of offices.
 

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Office Architecture + Design

Office Architecture + Design 

265 pages | PDF | 110,7 MB

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Reinventing the Workplace, Second Edition

Reinventing the Workplace, Second Edition

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Architectural Design - New Working Spaces

Architectural Design - New Working Spaces

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25 Espaces de bureaux

25 Espaces de bureaux

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New Environments for Working

New Environments for Working

The re-design of offices and environmental systems

for new ways of working

Andrew Laing, Francis Duffy, Denice Jaunzens, Steve Willis

The workplace is changing radically, yet the building designs and environmental systems for conventional offices fail to support the more fluid use of space and time practised by these new kinds of office work. Prepared by the team who wrote The Responsible Workplace in 1992, this book is based on a major research project undertaken by DEGW and the BRE. It identifies the key organizational changes, patterns of work, work settings and types of space layouts and it will help specifiers and users of environmental systems understand what products will be suitable for innovative ways of office working.

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Smart Space Office Design

Smart Space Office Design

Yeal Xie, 

English |  | 2010 | 376 pages | PDF | 51 MB

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