Future Office

<p>Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies potential new trends in office design from an international perspective. </p><p>Six themes are addressed: </p><ul> <li>IT and building infrastructure</li> <li>new office/new community</li> <li>organizational change</li> <li>high performance building envelopes</li> <li>interior environment</li> <li>value added sustainable design.</li> </ul><p>These forward-thinking essays have been contributed by practitioners and academics from a wide spectrum of interests to deliver an illuminating look into the unfolding possibilities and challenges ahead. </p> <p><strong>Introduction </strong>Future Office: Design, Practice and Applied Research <strong>Section One: Keynote Presentations </strong>Measurement: The Key to the Reinvention of the Office. Pragmatism.<em> </em>Green Design.<em> </em>Form, Function and Aesthetics in the Design of Tall Buildings.<em> </em>Best Practice: A Developer's Perspective. <strong>Section Two: Discussion Panels </strong>New Office, New Community.<em> </em>The Added Value of Sustainable Design.<em> </em>The Interior Environment.<em> </em>Organizational Change.<em> </em>High Performance Building Envelopes.<em> </em>Information Technology and Building Infrastructure. <strong>Section Three: Essays </strong>Workplace and the New American Community.<em> </em>Reinventing the Surburban Business Park.<em> </em>Challenges and Lessons Learned at Arlington Potomac Yard: A Work in Progress.<em> </em>Towards a Psychology of the Work Environment: Comfort, Satisfaction and Performance.<em> </em>The Cultural and Physical Environment as Drivers of Workplace Design.<em> </em>Communications Driven Architecture</p>