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Architecture and Communication in Organizations

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2003

Topics

  • Opening Event
  • Group Coffee and Administration
  • Strategy and Design: Why Space Matters
  • Architecture and Communication
  • Lunch and Opportunity to Visit Office Spaces at MIT and Kendall Square
  • Collective Intelligence and Information Distribution
  • Marketing, Distributed Work and Reinvention
  • Coffee
  • Architecture of Knowledge
  • From Consolidation to Innovation
  • Lunch Break
  • Discussion of Case Studies and Emerging Topics
  • Workplace Design: An Evolving Practice

Readings

  • TIMES: 8:30-10:30 AM · TOPICS: Strategy and Design: Why Space Matters Prof. Burton and Prof. Duffy present course foundations. · READINGS: Vischer, Jacqueline. Will This Open Space Work? Harvard Business Review, May-June 1999, pp. 4-7.
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  • TIMES: 10:30-11:30 AM · TOPICS: Architecture and Communication Research and findings by Prof. Tom Allen. · READINGS: Allen, Thomas. Architecture and Communication Among Product Development Engineers. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper. Cambridge, MA, 1997, pp. 1-35.
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  • TIMES: 2:30-4 PM · TOPICS: Marketing, Distributed Work and Reinvention Prof. Diane Burton presents the case of Chiat/Day. · READINGS: Berger, Warren. Lost in Space . Wired, February 1999.
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  • Dix, David. Virtual Chiat. Wired, July 1994.
    Listed reading
  • Gladwell, Malcolm. Designs for Working. The New Yorker, December 11, 2000, 60-72.
    Listed reading
  • TIMES: 8:30-10 AM · TOPICS: Architecture of Knowledge Gunter Henn demonstrates how space is changed by networks. · READINGS: Henn, Gunter, and Dirk Meyhofer. Architecture of Knowledge. Munich: Junius, 2003.
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  • TIMES: 10-11:30 PM · TOPICS: From Consolidation to Innovation Charles Slife and Cameron Roberts present Gillette R&D labs. · READINGS: Chusid, Michael. Public Musings on Acoustical Privacy . Architectural Record. September 2001, pp. 163-172.
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  • TIMES: 2:30-4 PM · TOPICS: Workplace Design: An Evolving Practice Professor and designer Frank Duffy on a series of designs that have changed spaces and attitudes. · READINGS: Duffy, Francis. The New Office . London: Conran Octopus Limited, 1997.
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