ABSTRACT
The designers of burolandschaft seem to recognize that there is a certain discomfort associated with sharing a large space with so many people for a large part of each day. A man's work, if varied and interesting, may more than adequately compensate for an unvaried and uninteresting working space. Both the uniqueness of the office environment and its communality with other spaces may be made clearer by comparing it with an environment whose function is quite distinct: the museum. The office is designed primarily for the worker, not the visitor, and to the worker both territory and orientation are important. Human movement within the cluster, the complex, the building and the city is closely related to the general problem of topographical orientation. From experiments with human and animal subjects, we know that humans are not the only ones who tend to alter their familiar paths in retracing a point-to-point route.
