9 Mar
2025
9 Mar
'25
1:08 a.m.
I really liked working in IBM Building 801, and Saarinen might deserve
some of the credit, but the people, the semi-rural environment, the
pleasant bicycle commute
(https://technologists.com/sauer/songs/swans.html) working from home
half the time in our 140 year old farm house with view of the Hudson,
... all probably deserve more of the credit.
I've worked in some other elegant office buildings, e.g., the Dell
Arboretum Point building in 1989-90, but the best times at Dell were
after we (development) moved to one-story tilt wall structures in an
industrial park. Again, it wasn't the building that mattered, but the
people, the work, working from home, ...
Charlie
On 3/8/2025 6:51 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
I visited PARC a few times and found it salubrious.
The culture was
peculiar (not necessarily in a bad way, but I didn't understand yet
how SV worked (literally)), but the building was cosy and the people
seemed happy.
I sometimes wonder whether the reverence we give to architects is fully earned.
-rob
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM George Michaelson <ggm(a)algebras.org> wrote:
>
> Steve Deering spoke fondly of the PARC building, it's possible some radical
architectural ideas work? If i recall the sense of his words it was democratising,
communal in spirit.
>
> G
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