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PART 264  Pract 266 STRATEGIC PRACTICES Dr. Francis Duffy, RIBA 284 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN William Odell, AIA 322 DESIGN RESEAR ...

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CHAPTER 266  Strategic Practices Dr. FRANCIS DUFFY, RIBA Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for term ...

S Sometimes an outsider can see things that are invisible to those who live and work closer to home. The conventional office bui ...

cultural significance of the office environment becomes very clear when the late twentieth-century North American office is comp ...

has so long represented in terms of business values and the very different kind of work culture of the emerging economy of e-com ...

from that to which we have become accustomed in North America—and everywhere else. Conventional North American offices have alwa ...

The third economic driver for change in office design is the use of physical environment to express corporate intentions and bus ...

ited from the industrial societies of the nineteenth century no longer have the functional logic underpinning them that once mad ...

lications, illustrates 43 international case studies of innovative office design. The lively running commentary reflects general ...

Things that have been taken for granted for a hundred years... such as the need for a vast infrastructure of roads and railways ...

munity generated. Seventeen of the cases (40 percent) are examples of adap- tive reuse of structures originally designed for ent ...

Internet bank set up by the British insurance company, the Prudential—no relation to the U.S. firm of the same name—did not even ...

The obverse should also be noted: the relative, and indeed frequently abso- lute, decline of the area devoted to individual work ...

unthinkable if the process by which physical design is procured and deliv- ered is not reinvented. The process by which successf ...

installing new information technology. The physical office environment can no longer be designed without reference to the parall ...

The new office... has to proclaim an entirely opposite set of values—networks, knowledge, interaction, enjoyment, transparency, ...

values of this older economy have become no more and no less than a metaphor for hierarchy, control, separation, meanness, opaci ...

with the virtual world, the office has to become more attractive. The more we do not have to go to work, the more design quality ...

remains in our culture—otherwise its growing incongruity would long ago have become intolerable. But the persistence of outmoded ...