In 1964, the iconic furniture design company Herman Miller unveiled an office plan unlike ... in giant fabric-wrapped walls, when he had meant, like Propst, to free them. It turned out that ...

Tropical plants sprouting up from partition walls provide privacy to workers inside this office in Utrecht, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Space Encounters. Occupying the 14th ...

From the thick walls and multiple subdivisions of Palladian villas, for example, to today's free-standing and multi-functional plans, architecture attempts to combat obsolescence by providing ...