ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/898022/office-manuals-from-the-past-century-expose-the-realities-of-architectural-practice Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000 Samuel Medina https://www.archdaily.com/898022/office-manuals-from-the-past-century-expose-the-realities-of-architectural-practice The guiding principles and priorities that drive the professional practice of architecture are the subject of abundant philosophical ideas and entrenched opinions—but how can we understand the current state of the profession without sweeping generalizations? Towards that goal, OfficeUS (the experimental institution born from the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale) has published a book examining the realities of today’s architectural workplace culture based, like countless works of cultural studies across many academic disciplines, on the documents produced by that culture. Specifically, the OfficeUS publication compiles information from office manuals and workplace handbooks spanning the last century of architectural practice to offer a practical but insightful portrait of how architects organize, run, and view their own profession.

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