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Explore the Modern Workplace at Dwell on Design NY

At Dwell on Design NY, Cornell University professor Franklin Becker and Los Angeles–based architect Kulapat Yantrasast delve into the zeitgeist of modern workspace design. By exploring the intersection of technology, behavior, and design, Becker and Yantrasast dissect the latest trends to see what advancements are making work lives easier.

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Kulapat Yantrasast is the principal and founder of wHY, the Los Angeles–based architecture firm that's designed commercial, institutional, and residential projects around the world. This fall, three of wHY's projects will open: Pomona College Studio Art Hall, Harvard Art Museums (with Renzo Piano Building Workshop), and the Kordansky Gallery. At Dwell on Design New York, Yantrasast will detail his concept for a an office inspired by Alvar Aalto's iconic glass vase.
Kulapat Yantrasast is the principal and founder of wHY, the Los Angeles–based architecture firm that's designed commercial, institutional, and residential projects around the world. This fall, three of wHY's projects will open: Pomona College Studio Art Hall, Harvard Art Museums (with Renzo Piano Building Workshop), and the Kordansky Gallery. At Dwell on Design New York, Yantrasast will detail his concept for a an office inspired by Alvar Aalto's iconic glass vase.
Franklin D. Becker specializes in organizational ecology, a field of research that studies what makes organizations successes or failures from a planning, design, and managerial perspective. He is the coauthor of Workplace by Design (Jossey-Bass, 1995) and Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies that Add Value and Improve Performance (Jossey-Bass, 2004) and directs Cornell's International Workplace Studies Program.
Franklin D. Becker specializes in organizational ecology, a field of research that studies what makes organizations successes or failures from a planning, design, and managerial perspective. He is the coauthor of Workplace by Design (Jossey-Bass, 1995) and Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies that Add Value and Improve Performance (Jossey-Bass, 2004) and directs Cornell's International Workplace Studies Program.
All Phifer’s 25 employees work around a hundred-foot table. Phifer maintains the monochromatic palette down to the mouse pads.
All Phifer’s 25 employees work around a hundred-foot table. Phifer maintains the monochromatic palette down to the mouse pads.
The Action Office II by Robert Propst for Herman Miller. This revolutionary design advanced a utopian idea that you could somehow have the ability to shape your space. It was called the “workstation” for the “human performer.”
The Action Office II by Robert Propst for Herman Miller. This revolutionary design advanced a utopian idea that you could somehow have the ability to shape your space. It was called the “workstation” for the “human performer.”
A preoccupation for Levine was saving space and money; he and his team used threaded steel rods and birch veneer plywood to construct the shelving in his office at the rear of the house.
A preoccupation for Levine was saving space and money; he and his team used threaded steel rods and birch veneer plywood to construct the shelving in his office at the rear of the house.