ABSTRACT
Some important aspects of design relevant to offices will be found
elsewhere in this handbook.
1 INTRODUCTION
1.01
Office design is at a turning point. For many decades, especially in
the developer-dominated Anglo-Saxon world, office users have
been passive. Vendors have concentrated on perfecting the deliv-
ery of buildings at most profit, least risk and maximum
convenience for themselves. The buildings that result can satisfy
the relatively simple demands of highly routinised and unchanging
organisations. The key question is whether such office buildings
are capable, without substantial modification, of accommodating
the emerging requirements of organisations.
