Future offices / edited by Ali Rahim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rahim, Ali, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Office buildings--Designs and plans.

Office buildings.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

211 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2023]

Summary:

"'Future Offices' examines the evolving nature of the office as a spatial asset. Rapid changes in culture, technology, and society have upended longstanding notions of offices and the nature of work itself. While companies and capital around the globe have become increasingly consolidated, labor vis-à-vis technology has become increasingly decentralized. The office, traditionally a key spatial interlocutor between labor and capital is caught in an awkward position with typological considerations for architecture. What should the future office look like? What is the future role of the headquarters? What does the office's changing role mean for urbanism? The works collected here provide frameworks for understanding the complex and multifaceted nature of contemporary work, manufacturing, and commerce, and they aspire to influence new ways of conceiving architecture at multiple scales. They speculate upon a future where offices acquire new facets as resources of space, knowledge, and production that participate in local and global economic and cultural contexts in new hybridized forms. At the heart of this is a recognition that the new ways in which companies integrate into society should be reflected in architecture itself." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Ali Rahim

The relevant office / Verda Alexander

Working from home / Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh

Disney headquarters / Colin Koop and Qiyao Li

Sticky hybrids / Patrick Monte

Feral envelopes for the future office / Ariane Lourie Harrison

Mixed-realities at work / Patrik Schumacher

Contributors' biographies

Acknowledgments / Ali Rahim.

Notes:

Place of publication from the publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781954081581

1954081588

OCLC:

1309064754