01 | 1993
Industrial building, the vision of the lean company
Birkhäuser VerlagAuthor: Degenhard Sommer, published 1993 by Birkhäuser Verlag, 236 pp., ISBN 978-3-7643-2806-1
The “Lean Company” has become an international catchword, a concept standing for reduction of managerial levels, increased responsibility for individual employees and significant improvement in intra-company communication. This book asks: what impact will industry’s new self-image and newly evolving production methods have on industrial building? In 35 illustrated contributions, architects, planners, industry representatives and scientists from Europe, the USA and Japan expound on production potential and on what can and should be demanded of industrial buildings. The articles are practice-oriented and present unconventional solutions.