_PDF_ The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work

The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work
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Immerse yourself with architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen
as they journey through a wide-ranging collection of the objects,
systems, and buildings that have occupied the American office space
since the advent of the internet. Through stories and speculations,
Idenburg and Suen expose the relationships between space, work,
and people, and explore the intentions that have driven the
development of office design for working humans.In twelve essays,
this book examines the spatial typologies and global phenomena

that have defined the office in the last half century. Topics include
the return of the work club, the rise of the corporate festival, the
way of the charismatic guru, the shattering of the time clock, and
the design of playgrounds for work. We cycle through Frank O.
Gehry&#8217sradical, playful spaces for digital nomads in the
advertising world, stagger under the weight of stacks of punch
cards, feel the fit of our bodies in the Aeron Chair, answer the phone
in Hugh Hefner&#8217sbed, and scroll through Lil Miquela's feed.
Photographic essays by Iwan Baan provide a visual post-occupancy
report on a range of canonical office projects, such as Marcel
Breuer&#8217sIBM campus in Florida and the Ford
Foundation&#8217surban garden in Manhattan. Four intervening
catalogs offer collections of experimental workplace products,
augural advertisements for office building components, digital office
components, and renderings of speculative workplaces each catalog
bridges the reality of the office and how we imagine its
alternatives.This book is a theoretical backdrop for architects as
much as it is for businesspeople and employees. With curiosity and
skepticism, it looks at the spaces and solutions that have been
designed for human work, tracing the transformation from work to
occupation, from punch cards to &#8220plybor,&#8221from
today&#8217slived experience to tomorrow&#8217sunpredictable,
imagined futures.