2022-04-12
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- Author: Tim Harford
- URL: https://timharford.com/2022/04/what-le-corbusier-got-right-about-office-space/
- Summary:
- One important question that holds employees from coming back to work is the lack of control over their work space
- A study in 2010 showed that when workers were empowered to shape their work space, their productivity and satstifyaction were much higher
- However, the tradition of office space design is to disempower workers
- The Action Office in the 1960s was a open-plan that allowed workers to sit, stand and move around the space as they wished
- Designed by Robert Propst and Herman Miller company
- But the space was soon destroyed by dividers
- The Chiat-Day Office in the 1990s was also a disaster that sacrificed workers control
- The Action Office in the 1960s was a open-plan that allowed workers to sit, stand and move around the space as they wished
- Le Corbusier designed homes for workers near Bordeaux - Cite Fruges de Pessac
- It was modified by the residents quickly after they moved in
- But it was its strength that it allowed for easy modification
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"You know, life is always right; it is the architect who is wrong." - Le Corbusier [[quotes]]
- One important question that holds employees from coming back to work is the lack of control over their work space
- Notes:
- Weird article that didn't really convince me that Le Corbusier was really the shiny example for good office space design
- His architectural vision was also ruine
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- Retrospective::
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- One month ago: [[March 12th, 2022]]
- One quarter ago: [[January 12th, 2022]]
- One year ago: [[April 12th, 2021]]