It is an old Cherokee saying that the only control you have over your future is
what you choose to surround yourself with. For that reason, I have always
admired the Frank Lloyd Wright buildings even though they often were quirky.
Today I live and work in a two room office suite four blocks from Lincoln
Center where my life more resembles the Japanese multi-use living space than
anything that Wright or the big space group advocated. It is in the ability
to place my own things on the wall and to fill my eyes and ears with the things
that I want to be a part of the rest of my life, and a wonderful wife business
partner, that makes me comfortable with seeing my future around me.
That is why I have always been a private entrepreneur rather than a corporate
or academic type. I don't like their images and refuse to take them into my
existance. They usually move out of or tear down the good architect's
buildings if they can't renovate them to their plebian taste.
If it is a Mies building then it is in the attention to details that will
reveal it. From what you say I would be surprised if it was anymore than a
visual copy. Mies went to the men's room also.
REH
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> Its interesting the things that define "quality of workplace". Many years
> ago we moved from an older office building, where the windows open, to one
> with sealed windows. Need I say more?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: January 6, 2001 5:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 6 feet by 6 feet
>
> The company I work for recently
> moved into bigger quarters.
>
> The new space is in
> a big skyscraper office building -- I haven't
> yet determined if it's a Mies or a bad imitation of
> a Mies building.
>
> The company's former office space (where I was for the
> past 18 months...) was in two floors of an old building,
> above a down-scale retail shop.
>
> My office in the "old building" was a fairly
> large room with big windows looking out on the street
> life of the city, and with three people: me with my desk
> in one corner, a senior person with his desk in another
> corner, and another senior person with his desk in the
> center of the room, so his back was to the wall.
> I liked it. And the kitchen was 20 feet away, and
> the bathroom was 30 feet away -- all *within* our
> office area.
>
> In the new place, I occupy a 6 feet by 6 feel "cubicle"
> built of those 4-1/2 foot high modular partitions.
> The kitchen is at least 60 feet away, and the
> bathroom is out on the corridor *outside* our
> security doors.
>
> What a difference in "quality of life"!
>
> My problem is not with the 6 feet by 6 feet. I am a kind of
> "squirrel", so I like to have my stuff around me.
> My problem is with the vast impersonality of the space,
> as exhibited by such details as that I have to
> go outside the office to go to the bathroom
> (and what a *dark* bathroom it is! The bathroom in the
> old building was very small, but it was *light* -- with
> windows, even, and it was *inside* the office space).
>
> I'll probably have more to write about this
> change in my life. But, for now, some positive fantasies
> I used to have in the old space have been "shot down".
> I'm trying to make the best of it.
>
> --
>
> Ah! If only there had been some kind of "computer
> revolution" in the sense of decisive improvements in the
> quality of life!
>
> +\brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
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