Title & Author:

Back to the office : 50 revolutionary office buildings and how they sustained / texts, Ruth Baumeister, Stephan Petermann (with additional contributors) ; editor, James Westcott.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2022]
New York : Distribution, North, Central and South America [by] Artbook / D.A.P.
©2022

Description:

519 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits (some color), plans (some color), facsimiles ; 34 cm

Notes:
Title from cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
The office as we've come to know it: a play in three acts -- The why, how, what of this book -- Infographics -- Reliance Building (1895) -- Chilehaus (1924) -- Tribune Tower (1925) -- Kirovsky District Town Hall (1935) -- Palazzo Montecatini (1938) -- Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (1940/43) -- Aarhus City Hall (1941) -- Secretariat Building (1953) -- Rautatalo (1955) -- Price Tower (1956) -- National Pensions Institute (1956) -- Van Leer Headquarters (1958) -- Inland Steel Building (1958) -- Seagram Building (1958) -- Kagawa Prefectural Office(1958) -- Pirelli Tower (1960) -- Nestlé Headquarters (1960) -- Pepsicola Headquarters (1960) -- Buch und Ton (1961) -- Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (1962) -- Tomado House (1962) -- Home Federal Savings and Loan (1962) -- Enso-Gutzeit Headquarters (1962) -- Bank Melli University Branch (1962) -- Barcardi Headquarters (1962) -- Unilever Headquarters (1964) -- Johnson Wax Headquarters Europe (1964) -- Erieview Tower (1964) -- John Deere Headquarters (1964) -- Palaceside Building (1966) -- Finnland Haus (1966) -- Osram Administration Building (1966) -- Meguro City Hall (1966) -- Ford Foundation (1967) -- Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center (1967) -- Communist Party Headquarters (1971) -- Centraal Beheer (1972) -- Uni-Hochhaus (1973) -- Chicago Federal Center (1973) -- BMW Headquarters (1973) -- Danmarks Nationalbank (1978) -- Pendorp (1982) -- HSBC (1985) -- Sas Frösundavik Office Building (1987) -- Grande Arche (1989) -- Delftse Poort (1991) -- Executive summary in six points : How not everything goes according to plan... ; Grids and windows don't say much, yet remain essential... ; How architect/client commitment enables longevity... ; Keep it clean! ; Following the money... ; ...And the murky life cycles of office buildings demand that we rethink the office of the 21st century....

Summary:

Able to work anywhere - and in unpredictable times, often forced to - we have a tortured relationship with the office today. Desperate to work again in physically shared spaces, we are also now questioning whether offices - and the demanding, alienating rhythms they impose on us - are needed at all. Offices themselves labour under intolerable forces too: twenty-first-century building regulations suggest redesigning them every seven-to-ten years, managerial strategies typically shift every five years, and employees churn every two. As a result, offices are torn down, stripped out, rethought and renewed with alarming frequency. With the future of our workspaces so uncertain, Back to the Office works overtime inside the revolutionary offices of the twentieth century, and asks what endured from their architecture, their materials, and the ideologies of work they embodied. Using before-and-after photography, archival documents, contemporary interviews and critical essays, this book engages corporations, architects, workers, building managers, regulators and others - all in search of the lessons we need to learn from a very recent time when there was an unambivalent enthusiasm for office life.

ISBN:

9789462086524 (hardbound)
9462086524 (hardbound)

Subject:

Office buildings History 20th century.
Offices History 20th century.
Office buildings 20th century Designs and plans.
Offices 20th century Designs and plans.
Office buildings Remodeling.
Tall buildings 20th century Designs and plans.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Immeubles de bureaux Histoire 20e siècle.
Bureaux Histoire 20e siècle.
Immeubles de bureaux 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Bureaux 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Immeubles de bureaux Réfection.
Immeubles de grande hauteur 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Kantoorgebouwen
Geschiedenis volgens genres - Bouwwerken voor verschillende doeleinden: Overige gebouwen.
Architectuur
Offices Designs and plans.
Office buildings Designs and plans.
Office layout.
Office decoration.

Added entries:

Baumeister, Ruth, writer of supplementary textual content.
Petermann, Stephan, 1978- writer of supplementary textual content.
Westcott, James, 1979- editor.

50 revolutionary office buildings and how they sustained

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316656
Call No.: 316656
Copy: 1
Status: Available