Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution - Couverture souple

Johnson, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 071123082X ISBN 13 : 9780711230828

Editeur : Frances Lincoln, 2010

Synopsis

Featuring shedworkers and shedbuilders from around the world who are leading the alternative workplace revolution, Shedworking looks at why having a shed office is a greener way of working, improves the work-life balance, and accelerates one's productivity. Inspired by the author‘s Shedworking website, which has been internationally acclaimed for the groundbreaking scale of its architectural coverage, the book features many previously unpublished images of garden offices and shed-like atmospheres: offices on roofs, sheds inside "traditional" offices, and even sheds on wheels, as well as cutting-edge Le Corbusier-designed models for the back garden, all-glass shed offices, and buildings "built" using living trees. Along the way it offers a whistle-stop tour of famous sheds from Pliny the Younger‘s summerhouse and the retreats of 19th-century composers Edvard Grieg and Gustav Mahler to award-winning 21st-century fantasy writer Neil Gaiman's gazebo. In short, Shedworking offers a manifesto for those wanting to change their working lives for the better and go to work in the garden.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alex Johnson is a journalist, blogger and author of Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write, Improbable Libraries and Bookshelf. He lives in St Albans, London with his wife, three children, and plenty of books from all over the world.

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Our offices define us: they dictate where we live, who we see, how we feel. We are where we work. And where we work is changing. We are coming home.



'Shedworking' is the term which I came up with in 2005 when I started publishing The Shed magazine for people who work in sheds and shedlike atmospheres to cater for the growing numbers of people working from home in garden offices, small 'shedlike' buildings in unused space in their back gardens. Over the last decade we have seen the evolution of the office workplace. A small shed which once only housed lawnmowers and pots can now be insulated from the cold, fitted with its own electrics, and can link you to anywhere in the world: Andrew Bolger of the Financial Times describes how â “a burgeoning breed of 'techno-commuters' is using fast, newly affordable broadband connections to hold down city jobs without sacrificing rural isolation", citing a former investment banker who runs an online business information service about the Russian aerospace industry from the Hebridean island of Tiree. The famous shedworkers who have attracted the most attention are artists and writers such as George Bernard Shaw, Roald Dahl, Henry Thoreau and Henry Moore. But nowadays you're just as likely to find accountants at the bottom of the garden as you are sculptors: Peter Smith runs his successful media law practice from a Scandinavian-style wooden shed in his garden in Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Scotland while a recent Chelsea Flower Show show garden included a garden office specifically for a shedworking solicitor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Frances Lincoln
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 071123082X
• ISBN 13: 9780711230828
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible