Productivity gains imply that the architect must know the workflow in detail. Stories about students living in a hospital for some weeks to acknowledge the subt

Productivity gains imply that the architect must know the workflow in detail. Stories about students living in a hospital for some weeks to acknowledge the subtleties of the workflow are rather common in academia but in the real world things are hard to put in practice: time constraints, work-life balance, squeezed budgets (in most industries) and subjectivity (hard to quantify productivity/happiness gains before building it) make change very hard. R&D in architecture is already fueled by architecture interns working pro bono. Normally the higher you go in an hierarchy the more conservative it gets till you get answers like: I completely agree with you but without an open layout how do I control my employees? With an open layout I can put more people in less space. This is what most business people think. All the rest is poetry. edit: best office concept I know: http://www.angelinthenorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Glass-walled-office-in-woodland-of-Selgas-Cano-architects-Madrid.jpg http://www.angelinthenorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gl...