Product Description: Traditional office work, characterized by repetitive clerical tasks, is rapidly giving way to "knowledge work," characterized by the creative application and exchange of information. In response, architects around the world are leaving aside the old cubicle grid to design innovative, high-tech offices that foster knowledge work and, at the same time, help workers balance the competing demands of colleagues, customers, and family...read more

Product Description: Book by Jeremy Myerson, Peter Murray

Full of images, ideas and inspiration for the office of the future, this brilliant new title looks at international trends in office buildings and interiors from a totally new perspective. The Creative Office shows how architecture, design and technology have become inextricably linked and predicts dramatic and unparalleled change over the next five years. Modern management's shift towards looser ways of working has forced architects and designers to focus on spaces that are more adaptable, spaces that induce more creative and cognitive patterns of work. At the heart of the book are case studies of 40 pioneering design projects, drawn from practices all over the world, each one extensively illustrated with plans, drawings and photographs. Accessible and intelligent, The Creative Office focuses on offices which have been designed to promote team work and to accommodate remote, virtual and mobile requirements using the newest technology and the very latest in space planning concepts. (view table of contents)

Product Description: “When people ask me what IDEO does, I say we design neat stuff,” says David Kelly, one of the firm’s founding partners. But neat stuff is just the beginning. Since its inception this world-renowned design firm has operated under the philosophy that in order to design for the future, you have to understand what’s missing in the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Covering five major areas of domestic design, International Design Yearbook 16 devotes separate chapters to furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products created over the past 18 months by both well-known designers and new names from around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Myerson, Jeremy

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Product Description: The physical structure and appearance of the workplace determine how we function, how we communicate and collaborate, our motivation levels and company performance, but we often fail to recognize the vital connection between organizational culture and the work environment...read more

Product Description: INTERNATIONAL INTERIORS 6 brings together 50 of the most remarkable interior design schemes created around the world over the past two years. Offices, restaurants, bars, clubs, hotels, shops, and leisure facilities are all extensively covered, providing a review of the most important developments in commercial interior architecture and design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The mid-1990s have seen a resurgence of interest and investment in public architecture. Civic authorities have been faced with the challenge of regenerating run-down cities and regions after the recession of the early years of the decade, and of attracting investment and jobs to their regions...read more

Product Description: A portrayal of John Makepeace, exploring his aims and his innovative crafted furniture designs. This book looks at his school in Dorset, which is training a new generation of craftsmen, and examines his pioneering ventures into architecture and the use of sustainable resources.

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