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12 Quoted in Brand,How Buildings Learn,pp. 12–13. The quotations are from Francis Duffy,“Mea- suring Building Performance,”Facil ...

Lopez Barnett, Dianna, and William D. Browning. A Primer on Sustainable Building. Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 1995. ...

CHAPTER 26  History of the Profession CINDY COLEMAN Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of u ...

I Interior designers can trace their profession to many who preceded them, from the cave painters at Lascaux to the creators of ...

Sensitivity to the role of design in society is as relevant at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was at the dawn o ...

which she used with great skill in the creation of interiors for the industrial- ist Henry Clay Frick and other wealthy New York ...

now delineated, was born and grew. Once a suitable interior was designed to contain it, it flourished. In the corporate hierarch ...

current interest and advancements in ergonomics, focused on the physio- logical aspects of work, particularly the impact of vari ...

The time had come for a paradigm shift in the way organizations were structured and in the way the physical spaces of organizati ...

advertise their vision and confidence, and share their uniquely American exuberance. Corporate America looked to the architectur ...

the head of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Other “Bauhauslers” soon joined him, forming the “new” Bauhaus ...

These sleek new corporate buildings required interiors that were compatible with their exterior architecture. Recognizing the ne ...

make choices, it was first necessary to understand how people in organiza- tions make decisions. In the 1950s, academia began ag ...

with integrity in design and materials. Previously, if corporate managers wanted custom furniture, the only sources were dealers ...

One outstanding example is Gensler, Inc. In 1965, Arthur Gensler began his eponymous company in San Francisco, with $200 and two ...

These trends, in turn, led to the speculative office building. In response to the exodus of businesses from the city, real estat ...

ultimately positioned designers as consultants who offered valuable advice that would have a strategic and economic impact on th ...

The widespread misunderstanding about their expertise put interior designers on the defensive. Since clients who were knowledgea ...

the early 1980s brought profound change to the structure of business, it also changed the way corporate leaders thought about th ...

base. Manufacturers began behavioral and observational research to study different solutions to workplace problems; that researc ...