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Knowledge Workers: A Psychological Approach to Living and Working

Carlson, Stephanie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305893312

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2011, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This project intends to develop a live-work building for knowledge workers through the application of the principles of environmental psychology. The site is located in downtown Austin, Texas—a technology hub with an active urban environment attractive to professionals seeking the flexibility and balance knowledge work provides. Knowledge workers perform symbol work that is neither temporally nor physically bound; however, they still operate within existing spatial constructs that do not address their unique living and working needs. Environmental psychology research can begin to suggest architectural solutions to the physical and psychological issues faced by knowledge workers. The application of this research will be determined through the examination of the tension between living and working spaces, as well as the relationship between public and private. The slow process of drawing by hand brings together the mental and the kinesthetic into a physical form, reflecting an architectural process which attempts to bring together psychology and the physicality of space into a cohesive architecture which supports the work and well-being of knowledge workers.
Aarati Kanekar, PhD (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, MARCH (Committee Chair)
91 p.
Architecture
environmental psychology; fractal; live work; Austin; restoration; knowledge work

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  • Carlson, S. (2011). Knowledge Workers: A Psychological Approach to Living and Working [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305893312

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Carlson, Stephanie. Knowledge Workers: A Psychological Approach to Living and Working. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305893312.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Carlson, Stephanie. "Knowledge Workers: A Psychological Approach to Living and Working." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305893312

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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