Title & Author:

Corporate fields : new office environments by the AA DRL / edited/project texts by Brett Steele ; with essays by Andrew Benjamin [and others].

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, 2005.

Description:

263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

AA DRL Documents ; 1

Notes:
[Pt. 1] Browser_Book. Plan -- Project topology -- Designing the DRL / Brett Steele -- [Pt. 2] Browser_Models. Digital -- 01. Animate. Intelligence -- 02. Archi. Species -- 03. Fibre. Space -- 04. Corporate. Sponge -- 05. Mesh. Work -- 06. Fractal. Tectonics -- The enormous file / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Research agenda / Patrik Schumacher -- [Pt. 3] Browser_Models. Physical -- 07. Programmatic. Holes -- 08. Stratified. Clusters -- 09. NURB.net -- 10. Flex. Terrain -- 11. Flow. Forms -- 12. Razor. Bios -- 13. Con. Ex -- Nomadism and design / Andrew Benjamin -- The Aeffect / Mark Cousins -- [Pt. 4] Browser_Diagrams.Organisational -- 14. Ground. Merge -- 15. Knot. Plates -- 16. Vortex -- 17. Concavexus -- 18. B-Spline. Trajectories -- 19. Multi-Linear. Bundles -- Oxymoronic methods / Christopher Hight -- Managing instabilities / Tom Verebes -- [Pt. 5] Browser_Diagrams. Project. Data -- 20. Incubator -- 21. Poly. Affiliations -- 22. Visual. Vectors -- 23. Oblique. Striations -- 24. Data. Strata -- 25. Local. Alliances -- 26. G.O.L. Cube -- Lab. Life -- Author. Map -- Author. Map. Exhibition -- Coming in 2006.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Corporate fields imagines and gives form to the future of office life, bringing together more than 2000 diagrams, models, renderings and other images from 26 architectural projects completed during the first three years of the ground-breaking AA DRL programme." "The projects are based on extensive field research undertaken in some of London's most creative corporate environments, and they have been developed from a close analysis of the remarkable ways in which today's leading companies challenge both traditional corporate practice and conventional office planning assumptions. The proposals resulting from this design research include master plans and buildings as well as interiors and furnishings." "Corporate Fields is the first in a series of books documenting the work of the AA DRL, whose innovative (and increasingly imitated) team-based design pedagogy proposes a model for peer-to-peer teaching and learning that is uniquely tailored to the increasingly global design challenges, tools and technologies of the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1902902416 (pbk.)
9781902902418 (pbk.)

Subject:

Office buildings Design and construction.
Immeubles de bureaux Conception et construction.
Bauentwurf
Bürohaus
Verwaltungsbau

Added entries:

Steele, Brett D.
Architectural Association (Great Britain)
AA DRL documents ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238526
Call No.: BIB 168393
Status: Available