In a typical office, employees have a safe, comfortable environment in which to work – one that may be considered fine or adequate, but which doesn’t necessarily inspire. A lot of people say, “Where I work isn’t all that bad,” said architect Charles First, AIA, CCM, CFM. In his recently published book, “A Place to […]

Office architecture and design have incorporated various popular influences in recent years: smart office tools, the open-ceiling industrial-chic aesthetic, and the “experiential office” trend, to name a few. The field has been slower, however, to adopt findings from positive psychology into office form and function. Positive psychology, the scientific study of the condition and strengths […]