The general European mentality towards innovative forms of office design in the 1940 and 1950s was that of caution and hesitation following the … 展开

The post-World War II social-democratic environment in many Northern European countries engendered an egalitarian management approach. … 展开

Typical designs used contemporary but conventional furniture which was available at the time. Standard desks and chairs were used, with lateral file cabinets, curved screens, and large potted plants used as visual barriers and space definers. Floor plans … 展开

The first company to be commissioned by Quickborner was Bertelsmann, a German publishing company. They worked together for two years transforming the space into an appropriate solution. But once they did, other European companies began scrambling to … 展开

An early advocate for Bürolandschaft in America was Robert Propst, who was hired as the head of the research wing of the furniture company Herman Miller 1958. He had been developing ideas of flexible office space design in the U.S around the same time as the … 展开

Office furniture companies quickly developed panel-hung systems and other types of systems furniture which sought to provide some of the advantages of office landscape, but with slightly greater privacy, density, and storage capacity.
Initially, the layouts … 展开

• Quiet room, typically a room in an office built with regard to silence by shielding noise from or towards the surroundings 展开