how the company has shaped offices for fifty years

Office life is a theater, with employees acting as actors and offices as the stage. The least we can say is that there are a thousand things to say… and to see. This is precisely the objective of the architects Florian Idenburg and Lee Ann Suen, authors of a sum (in English) illustrated by the photographer Iwan Baan, The Office of Good Intentions – Human(s) Work. A cliché could sum up the spirit of the book: a vertiginous dive to discover the buildings emblematic of American office life and which have inspired companies around the world for fifty years.

Through twelve explained and illustrated examples, the authors reveal the links between architecture, design and spatial planning so that the employees of an organization – whether there are several tens or thousands – can work in the best possible conditions. Throughout these 592 pages, a groundswell punctuates this story with the moment as its starting point…