Workplaces and Workspaces: Office Designs That Work [Hardcover]

Justin Henderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

Workplaces and Workspaces: Office Designs That Work beautifully illustrates the designs of some of the world's most innovative and imaginative architects and interior designers.

--Features more than fifty high-quality office designs ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge--law, banking, multimedia, and biotechnology --Presents all the elements of design: comfortable seating and lighting, dynmaic colors, materials and textures, functional space plans, and well considered programming --Shows how designers meet the challenge of enhancing corporate identity while maintaining necessary funcionality --Includes some of the best work of the 1990s and points the way to the definitive office designs of the 21st century

A handsome volume showing how designers inspired by the challenges of cyberspace, new technology, and changing modes of doing business are reinventing the office.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Whitehead reviews the design concerns and considerations presented in residential interior and exterior lighting. Proceeding room by room, the book offers an abundance of photographs that show various lighting, such as track, recessed, and the like, with captions detailing how the lighting is used to create a look or to solve a problem. Although not a how-to book, this will give amateurs as well as professionals an idea of how to use lighting to create dramatic effects. An author-recommended list of architects and interior and lighting designers as well as a glossary concludes the work. A fine choice for larger collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Office design is constantly changing. This book heads in new directions for the 21st century. -- Office Solutions, December 2000

Workplaces and Workspaces focuses on interior space configurations that help firms sustain a critical advantage. -- Justin Henderson, Office & Industrial Properties Magazine, November 2000 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Pub (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564963969
• ISBN-13: 978-1564963963
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justin here. I've been writing all kinds of books for a long time now, through years in LA growing up, then the 80s in New York, the 90s and 00s in Seattle, and now, here in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. I live here with my beautiful wife, Donna Day, and our smart, charming, princess of a daughter Jade. I do a lot of surfing these days, and watch the tropical birds in the mango trees across the vacant lot.

When I was in New York, I worked as an architectural journalist, and eventually wrote a bunch of books about interior design and architecture. I also did some traveling as a journalist, and it was on one of those trips that I found the inspiration for Lucy Ripken, my amateur mystery sleuth. Lucy is a hybrid of Donna and me, a semi-tough-talking contemporary "broad" with a heart of gold and a loft in SoHo. Not unlike the one Donna and I lived in until we fled for the less stressful environs of Seattle in 1991. In Seattle I kept on writing all kinds of books, and as was my habit, hanging around music venues. Eventually that turned into another book, called Grunge Seattle, a kind of cultural travel guide to Seattle in the early 90s.

After the first Lucy Ripken, I wrote six more. They are all available at Amazon, as are the architecture and design books. These days I spend a lot of time riding waves, and writing about surfing among other things. You can check out my surfing column here: http://www.elsayulero.com/channel/44/stories. And the books are all sitting on the electronic shelf. Have a look. See you in the waves.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent examples of interior designs, December 3, 1998

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Richard Perez ([e-mail]) (San Juan, Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Workplaces and Workspaces: Office Designs That Work (Hardcover)

If you're looking for ideas or examples of modern office interior design, then this book is a must have. Many full page color photos highlighting furniture, lighting, floors, desks, and tables as they actually are used. Text is concise and easy to read.

3.0 out of 5 stars A nice book, January 27, 2002

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Flavio Galvao de Franca (Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Workplaces and Workspaces: Office Designs That Work (Hardcover)

Very good photographs and reviews inside, but there's a lack of technical drawings to give us a better understanding of the projects.