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Back to the Office explores how iconic office spaces, across four different continents, have changed over the last six decades. Recent pandemic lockdowns have led us to reevaluate what office spaces should look like with some arguing that they should be more homey and others advocating for a more post-industrial look with exposed brick and steel rods. The authors of Back to the Office look to the past for answers. They explore old office buildings and examine old archival documents and photos and interview architects, workers, and building managers to track their development. Some remain offices while others have been repurposed into hotels and other spaces. “Impossibly minimal and elegant photos from the 1960s are juxtaposed with the more mundane reality of layers of accretion and clunky furniture,” The Financial Times writes in a review of the book.

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