{"id":2565,"date":"2024-03-13T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/blog\/core-researches\/bureu-eu-office-buildings-between-architectural-hardware-and-managerial-software-1950s-2000\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:57:30","slug":"bureu-eu-office-buildings-between-architectural-hardware-and-managerial-software-1950s-2000","status":"publish","type":"core-researches","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/core-researches\/bureu-eu-office-buildings-between-architectural-hardware-and-managerial-software-1950s-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"EU office buildings between architectural \u201chardware\u201d and managerial \u201csoftware\u201d (1950s-2000) (BUREU)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the interiors of EU office buildings affect the process of European integration on the level of everyday material and bureucratic practices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2564,"template":"","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"BUREU","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"rp_acronym":"BUREU","rp_abstract":"The historical research project BUREU investigates which design choices were made in relation to the interiors of the European Union\u2019s office buildings in Luxembourg and Brussels (1950s \u2013 early 2000s). More concretely, BUREU seeks to answer the question which managerial ideas were at the root of these office interior designs.<br><br>The notion of \u201cefficient management\u201d had become highly important in virtually every large organisation since the start of the twentieth century. How this \u201cefficiency\u201d could be stimulated and facilitated through architectural design, however, has been a continual matter of debate between various groups (architects, managerial specialists, architectural clients, and so on). Indeed, every time an office building was built or rented, crucial choices were to be made. How could the employees\u2019 material working environment be made to fit the organisation\u2019s leading ideas on efficient work organisation? Using a metaphor from the world of the computer, we refer to this material working environment as \u201chardware\u201d, while we define the leading ideas on work organisation as \u201csoftware\u201d. Using another metaphor from the same field, we consider the office as a so-called \u201cinterface\u201d between this hardware and software. Offices were, in other words, places where the two components met and blended into a whole.<br><br>By retracing the debate on the \u201cideal\u201d relation between \u201chardware\u201d (office interior design) and \u201csoftware\u201d (managerial ideas) in relation to the major EU institutions, we inquire if \u2013 and how \u2013 the powerful political ideal of an \u201cefficient\u201d Union was translated into \u201cefficient\u201d interior architecture. By investigating the perceptions of EU officials, we will additionally try to unearth which effects certain design choices had on the everyday activities on these officials.<br><br>Ultimately, BUREU wants to contribute to our collective understanding of the historical roots of concepts such as<br>efficiency, office work, and, of course, the integration process driven by the EU.","rp_start_date":"2022-06-01 14:33:43","rp_duration":52,"rp_main_funder":"FNR","rp_other_funders":["The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)"],"rp_external_partners":["KU Leuven"],"rp_keywords":["office buildings","history","European Union","EU","architecture","architectural history","offices","bureaucracy","European integration","management"],"rp_members":[{"id":"50001786","isExternal":false,"isPI":true,"name":"Andreas Fickers","featuredImageUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMDE3ODZfX0FuZHJlYXMgRklDS0VSUw==","detailsPageUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/blog\/people\/andreas-fickers\/"},{"id":"50038885","isExternal":false,"isPI":false,"name":"Jens van de Maele","featuredImageUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMzg4ODVfX0plbnMgVkFOIERFIE1BRUxF","detailsPageUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/blog\/people\/jens-van-de-maele\/"},{"isExternal":true,"isPI":false,"name":"Marco Ninno","featuredImageUrl":"","detailsPageUrl":"","entity":"KU Leuven"},{"isExternal":true,"isPI":true,"name":"Martin Kohlrausch","featuredImageUrl":"","detailsPageUrl":"","entity":"KU Leuven"},{"name":"St\u00e9phanie FRANSIS","isPI":false,"isExternal":false,"featuredImageUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwNzE5MjVfX1N0w6lwaGFuaWUgRlJBTlNJUw==","detailsPageUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/blog\/people\/stephanie-fransis\/","id":"50071925"}]},"research-project-status":[272],"research-project-type":[264],"field-of-interest":[289],"organisation":[222,221],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/core-researches\/2565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/core-researches"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/core-researches"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/core-researches\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/core-researches\/2565\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"research-project-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-project-status?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"research-project-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-project-type?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"field-of-interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/field-of-interest?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"organisation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisation?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}