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The Office, A Facility Based on Change
by Propst, Robert
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Ann Arbor: Herman Miller, Inc, 1968. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 71pp. Mild shelf wear to paper wraps with light rubbing and toning to covers and edges. Slight curl to edges of covers. Glossy plastic covering is just beginning to peel at edges of wraps. Sunning to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this work on optimizing office space by Director of the Research Department at Herman Miller, and inventor of the cubicle, Robert Propst (1921-2000). Though the cubicle was formed out of Propst's Action Office system, he was appalled by their use in "cubicle farms," which went against his philosophy of optimizing offices for the promotion of productivity, privacy, and health for the workers.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In this classic treatise, Robert Propst spells out his vision for the modern office. As Herman Miller's Research Director, Propst's investigation of "the office and the human performer" asserts that the constant, exponential change in technology and modes of work has left the physical environment lagging far behind. Since the revolution in work was (and still is!) based on communication, Propst argues that networks must be the primary concern. Outlining the principle operations for Action Office 2, Propst states that "almost any space can be upgraded" and allow people to adjust their offices with ease and grace, without imposing large costs or delays. In theory (if not in practice) this new facility would place power in the hands of the people who actually inhabit a workspace.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In this classic treatise, Robert Propst spells out his vision for the modern office. As Herman Miller's Research Director, Propst's investigation of "the office and the human performer" asserts that the constant, exponential change in technology and modes of work has left the physical environment lagging far behind. Since the revolution in work was (and still is!) based on communication, Propst argues that networks must be the primary concern. Outlining the principle operations for Action Office 2, Propst states that "almost any space can be upgraded" and allow people to adjust their offices with ease and grace, without imposing large costs or delays. In theory (if not in practice) this new facility would place power in the hands of the people who actually inhabit a workspace.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10547
- Title
- The Office, A Facility Based on Change
- Author
- Propst, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Herman Miller, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor
- Date Published
- 1968
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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