"The
Taylor system of processes, tools and environments has been used to facilitate
design, project management and re-organizational processes for a wide variety
of organizations ranging in size from companies in start-up to Fortune
500 corporations; they have ranged in kind from city, county and federal
governments, to the military, small businesses, schools and universities,
trade associations, volunteer groups and non-profit foundations, and large
multi-national corporations. The specific goods and services provided
by these organizations represent the entire spectrum from crafts to knowledge
to high technology. [With completion of this Center, your organization]
will have succeeded in creating a great work of architecture that inherently
provides the flexibility required for a building to remain viable as the
organization lives a constant change process. This environment was
built for Knowledge Workers and 'idea manufacturing.' It is
a healthy environment for individuals and ecologically sound--which means
it will be economical."
Matt Taylor, 1992
For
the most part, the society at large knows how to provide for individual
creativity. Environments by Athenaeum International help to bring
groups of people to manifest successful interaction in their work. All
our work environments provide healthier, creative and more productive places
for people to find a greater measurable degree of human happiness in the
workplace. Good work environments facilitate effective process with variety
and balance--prospect and refuge, the opportunity to move, to access necessary
technology, to interact, or to be solitary.
The
variety and utility of our environments is illustrated in this center built
as the training facility for a large national insurance company. Comfortable
places are available for large and small groups and for individual contemplation.
In all areas, moveable walls and work stations provide the ability to reconfigure
the environment around the demands of the work.