Excellence by Design
Transforming Workplace and Work Practice
Published on 7. December 1998
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-471-24647-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Groundbreaking Look at One of the Most Important Issues Facing Businesses Today Often overlooked, yet vital to an organization's overall operations and productivity, how work space is used is becoming an increasingly critical issue for businesses to address. Based on a four-year research project conducted by members of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning's Space Planning and Organization Research Group (SPORG), Excellence by Design examines this important issue. The book explores how the workplace interacts with work practices, introducing proven strategies and providing a sound framework for creating the workplace of the future. Covering a wide range of essential topics, from the interpersonal and political dimensions of workplace making to the art of using tools for workplace and organizational transformation, Excellence by Design introduces the "process architecture" approach to creating workplaces.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-24647-3 (9780471246473)
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Persons
TURID H. HORGEN is a research associate at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She maintains an active workplace design practice in the United States and Europe, working for corporations, governments, and institutions. MICHAEL L. JOROFF is senior lecturer at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, where he served for fifteen years as Director of the Laboratory of Architecture and Planning. He consults globally with organizations about their workplace strategy and organizational development. WILLIAM L. PORTER is Leventhal Professor of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is a former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. The late DONALD A. SCHoN was Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Education, Emeritus, and Senior Lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Content
Workplace-Making Beyond the Stable State. Concepts of Process Architecture. From Stereotype to Dynamic Coherence. The Design Game. The Practice and Tools of Process Architecture. A Synthesis of Ideas and Practices: The LX Workplace Experiment. Process Architecture Revisited. Learning Process Architecture. Epilogue. Notes. Index.