Name: オープンオフィスは過大評価 (Open offices are overrated)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:38:00.000Z
Duration: 6 min 31 s
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There've been studies that show that private offices  “clearly outperformed” open ones.

Pricey real estate means that every square foot's a dollar sign,

But we don't like to talk about it that way.

We act like it's about interaction and collaboration,

even though studies have shown that ease of interaction is not an issue in any type of office.

I am throwing stones from a glass office.

My desk is incredibly close to my poor neighbors,

I always have to wear headphones to concentrate,

But when you look at really cool companies,

to “encourage interaction and openness.”

This is an open office. It's a post office

Open offices weren't invented by hip millennials.

Clerical work was done in big open spaces

more and more people were spending their days

One genius wanted to make offices more open,

and he wanted open spaces to work better.

“The Eminent American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright”.

“Come in lad. Instead of a building being a series of boxes and closets,

it became more and more open, more and more a sense of space.”

Wright's known for his houses, often with open plans,

In 1909, he experimented with open offices  in a Buffalo building.

The SC Johnson company needed a new headquarters,

“Yes Raid, new bug killer discovery from Johnson's Wax.”

The administrative building was the highlight.

Wright believed new materials, like steel, enabled bolder designs.

and the architecture of freedom and democracy  needed something beside the box.”

Just in case you missed that, he just said boxes are fascist.

Doesn't that sound a lot like modern open office hype?

But there were big differences between what Wright made and what we have today.

They were so elegantly skinny,  they worried building inspectors.

Wright also specially designed each of these desks and chairs.

And managers got private offices on a mezzanine.

“One of the first consequences was tea in the afternoon,

But Wright's open office was very different

from the open drudgery in, say, 1960s “The Apartment.”

People eliminated Wright's careful design work

Open, but without Wright's genius behind it.

That's why people thought a “cubicle”

The May 1968 issue of Progressive Architecture has a lot of gems.

Like this flooring that's…asbestos tile?

Hindsight 20/20 probably shoulda gone with linoleum.

Page 174 has a spread about a movement called Bürolandschaft.

By the 60's, it had made its way to America.

Look at this diagram of DuPont Chemical's boxy,

very organized offices before Bürolandschaft.

And now look at the fluid, organic layout they ended up with.

The idea was to make offices open, but keep them flexible.

Herman Miller did the same with their "Action Office."

“Well, I'm walking through it right now.”

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