2017
Edited by Eva Franch, Ana Miljački, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Jacob Reidel, Ashley Schafer
Design: Pentagram

9.5 x 6.25 x 0.5 inches
288 pages, 461 illustrations
paperback

OfficeUS Manual is a critical, occasionally humorous and sometimes stupefying guide to the architectural workplace that documents and interrogates the protocols, policies, and procedures of architectural offices. The book is the third publication of the OfficeUS series, which deals with the development of US architectural practices all over the world.

OfficeUS Manual contains historical material from large firms and small studios. Additionally, it features contemporary reflections by more than fifty architects, artists, and writers concerned with the needs and desires of professional architecture practices today. It analyses the methods and practices of architectural firms looking at the past one hundred years.

The book, with its exceptional photography, is a resource for understanding – and reimagining – the nature and design of an architectural practice. It features original graphic analysis and images from The Architects by Amie Siegel. Also part of the OfficeUS series are OfficeUS Agenda – documenting the work of US architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years – and OfficeUS Atlas, a register and press archive of US architectural production abroad.