Product Description

The authors summarize the changing context of office work and identify the issues that the facilities manager must consider and resolve when handling major physical change in the workplace.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2424989 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
A beautifully produced hardback that would grace the coffee table in any office, it has photographs and a layout that are a joy to see...The text is scholarship material, but witty and accessible. Flexible Working

A pleasure to read... Architectural Review

A text which will be valuable for architects and clients ...much of practical value...well illustrated...Buy the book if you are involved in office design; it will set you on the path. Building Design

Adds to the new change-management literature that is fast focussing on office design after years of critical neglect. RSA Journal

An excellent guidebook for all those involved in the design of office environments for the 21st century. Journal of Property Research

Certainly, I would recommend picking up and simply dipping into this book whenever a Facilities Manager, Chief Executive, Architect or Space Planner is about to embark on any project necessitating changes in the physical workplace...This book clearly contributes much to the contention that the traditional non-thinking approach to office space planning is rapidly following the example set by the Brontosaruus and its contemporaries. Premises and Facilities Management

Interior designers and architects with their eyes on new office developments will benefit from this Herman Miller sponsored overview of efficient ways to accommodate the needs of management and staff in the workplace where long-accepted methods are being swept away by electronic technology...Many diagrams and charts elucidate the points made in their text. Interior

Its refreshing to pick up a book that really considers the people who have to use the office every day and, at the same time, manages to be extremely readable. FX

The authors offer a fascinating snapshot of the successful office. The Times

The book offers an in-depth analysis of what offices are (or should be) about. It provides helpful rules of thumb and a run through of dilemmas (note, not problems) under each chapter heading. Space Management

This is a must have book...The copious illustrations throughout the book are inspirational... Project

Tommorows Office tantalises by providing insights into the dilemmas of office design...Santa Raymond and Roger Cunliffe preserve a successful balance between pictorial references, diagrammatic information and text...express a valid and important point of view...it gives useful insights to a potentially wide range of readers....facilities managers and organisational managers will be surprised at the major contribution that can be made by the design process. The Architects Journal

'a text which will be valuable for architects and clients... much of practical value... well illustrated... Buy the book if you are involved in office design; it will set you on the path.'.
–-Building Design

Mentioned in a publication of Architectural Science Review.
May 2001