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$25.00

Lars Muller Publishers, 2017

16 × 24 cm, 6 ¼ × 9 ½ in

288 pages, 461 illustrations

Paperback

ISBN: 978-3-03778-439-6, English
 

Edited by Eva Franch, Ana Miljački, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco,

Jacob Reidel, and Ashley Schafer. 

 

OfficeUS Manual is a critical, occasionally humorous, and sometimes stupefying guide to the architectural workplace that documents and interrogates the protocols, policies, and procedures of architectural offices. The book is the third publication of the OfficeUS series, which deals with the influence of U.S. architectural practices on a global scale.

 

OfficeUS Manual contains historical material from large firms and small studios. Additionally, it features contemporary reflections by more than fifty architects, artists, and writers concerned with the needs and desires of professional architecture practices today. It analyzes the methods and practices of architectural firms, examining, in particular, the past one hundred years.

 

The book is a resource for understanding – and reimagining – the nature and design of an architectural practice. It features original graphic analysis and images from The Architects by Amie Siegel. The publication follows two other books in the series: OfficeUS Agenda, which documents the work of US architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years; and OfficeUS Atlas, a register and press archive of US architectural production abroad.

 

OfficeUS is a project initiated by Storefront for Art and Architecture in 2014, when the organization was selected to serve as the commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Read more about the OfficeUS project here.