Title & Author:

OfficeUS : Manual / edited by Eva Franch, Ana Miljački, Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Jacob Reidel, Ashley Schafer ; [contributors, Rami Abou-Khalil [and others]].

Publication:

Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers ; [New York, N.Y.] : Storefront for Art and Architecture, [2017]
©2017

Description:

286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

OfficeUS ; 3

Notes:
"US Pavilion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition--la Biennale di Venezia"--Page 286.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-277).
Opportunity -- Section 0. Introduction -- Section 1. Mission -- Section 2. Organization : Getting started ; Business model ; Office structure ; Positions -- Section 3. Policies : Hiring policy ; Equal employment opportunity ; Employment at will ; Introductory period ; Standards of conduct and standards of care ; Professional responsibility ; Public service ; Office hours ; Attendance ; Punctuality ; Time away from the office ; Moonlighting ; Overtime ; Breaks ; Procrastination ; Severe weather conditions ; Salary ; Office attire and decorum ; Use of office equipment ; Cleaning ; Continuing education ; Teaching, writing, lecturing ; Confidentiality ; Intellectual property ; Authorship ; Sexual harassment ; A safe workplace ; Gifts ; Assessing performance ; Separations -- Tools -- Section 4. Procedures : General procedures : Sign in / sign out ; Timesheets ; Time management ; Meetings ; Estimates ; Contracts ; Expense reports ; Travel ; Photography ; Purchases ; Valuables ; Receiving visitors ; Publicity, promotion, press, and publications -- Conventions -- Section 5. Operations : Telephone ; Correspondence ; Internet ; Electrical outlets ; Printing and copying ; Filing systems ; File naming ; Drawings ; Food ; Temperature and ventilation ; Smoking -- Order -- Section 6. Environment : Office environment ; Individual workstations ; Reception ; Conference room ; Drafting room ; Model shop ; Sample room ; Storage -- Rights -- Section 7. Benefits ; General benefits ; Office holidays ; Vacation ; Sick and personal time ; Professional associations.

Summary:

OfficeUS Manual is a critical, occasionally humorous and sometimes stupefying guide to the architectural workplace that documents and interrogates the protocols, policies and procedures of architectural offices. The book is the third publication of the OfficeUS series, which is dealing with the development of US architectural practices all over the world. OfficeUS Manual contains historical material from large firms and small studios. Additionally it features contemporary reflections by more than fifty architects, artists and writers concerned with the needs and desires of professional architecture practices today. It analyses the methods and practices of architectural firms looking at the past one hundred years. The book with its exceptional use of photography is a resource for understanding - and reimagining - the nature and design of an architectural practice. It features original graphic analysis and images from The Architects by Amie Siegel. Part of the series OfficeUS are OfficeUS Agenda - documenting the work of US architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years - and OfficeUS Atlas, a register and press archive of US architectural production abroad.

ISBN:

9783037784396 (paperback)
3037784393 (paperback)
(Agenda (Catalogue))
9783037784372
(Atlas (Repository))
9783037784389

Subject:

Architecture, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture, American 21st century Exhibitions.
Architectural practice United States Exhibitions.
Architecture américaine 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture américaine 21e siècle Expositions.
Architecture, American Exhibitions. 20th century.
Architecture, American Exhibitions. 21st century.
Architectural practice.
Architecture, American.
United States.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Franch i Gilabert, Eva, editor.
Miljački, Ana, editor.
Mínguez Carrasco, Carlos, editor.
Reidel, Jacob, editor.
Schafer, Ashley, editor.
Khalil, Rami Abou-, contributor.
International Architectural Exhibition (14th : 2014 : Venice, Italy). U.S. Pavilion,

Manual

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300526
Call No.: BIB 246727
Status: Available