The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.
Buildings are forms of performances.