Information Age

Hierarchy and Networks

Hierarchical Army Rank

E1 Private E10 Sergeant Major O1 Second Lieutenant O11 General O12 Chairman of the Joint

Chief of Staff

Hierarchical Organization

Hierarchy

Model A Ford Factory, Richmond, CA.

Skyscraper

World Trade Center,1966-1977

Yamasaki and Associates, with Emery Roth and Sons

Viking Military Structure

There was very little formal structure by way of military rank in Viking armies. As a rule the term dreng is applied to a young warrior, and ðegn to a more mature member of a boat's crew. The only two specifically military posts referred to at the time were the merkismathr, the standard bearer ( an honoured position since many Viking standards were said to have magical properties ), and the stallari or marshal - the king's deputy in the field.

Viking village of Wichamstow

10th Century

Wichamstow

Osama Bin Laden’s Organization It is not tightly knit

with a clear command structure. It is a loose coalition of groups operating across continents.

He has been described as a "venture capitalist" of Islamic extremism - running "Jihad Inc" and its subsidiary "Jihad-Dot-Com".

Collaboration Network

Dallas Structure

1850River

1900Rail

1970Highway

Dallas Structure 21st Century

Urban Village

Frank Elmer Associates Ltd., Columbus, Ohio

A new town center for Channahon, Illinois.

High Tech – High Touch It is embracing technology that preserves our humanness

and rejecting technology that intrudes upon it. It is recognizing that technology is an integral part of the evolution of culture, the creative product of our imaginations, our dreams and aspirations – and that the desire to create new technologies is fundamentally instinctive. But is also recognizing that art, story, play, religion, nature, and time are equal partners in the evolution of technology because they nourish the soul and fulfill its yearnings. It is expressing what it means to be human and employing technology fruitfully in that expression.

Locational Choice

The Butterfly

Thomas L. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman won the

2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House correspondent. In 2005, Mr. Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Ten (10)Forces that Flattened the World

Flattener # 1 11/9/89 The New Age of Creativity: When the Walls Came Down and the Windows Went Up

Flattener # 2 8/9/95 The New Age of Connectivity: When the Web Went Around and Netscape Went Public

Flattener #3 Work Flow Software

Flattener #4 Uploading: Harnessing the Power of Communities

Ten (10)Forces that Flattened the World

Flattener # 5 Outsourcing Y2K

Flattener # 6 Offshoring: Running with Gazelles, Eating with Lions

Flattener # 7 Supply-Chaining: Eating Sushi in Arkansas

Flattener # 8 Insourcing: What the Guys in Funny Brown Shorts Are Really Doing

Ten (10)Forces that Flattened the World

Flattener #9 In-Forming: Google, Yahoo, MSN Web Search

Flattener #10 The Steroids: Digital, Mobile, Personal, and Virtual

HERMAN MILLER 'GREENHOUSE' FACTORY & OFFICES

Two major goals of the project were to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration (by simultaneously increasing production and shortening market response time) and to optimize the impact of a large building on the environment and the community. In addition to meeting these goals, WM+P provided a building with abundant natural light and fresh air within an atmosphere of informality and spatial openness.

William McDonough + Partners

Ericsson Corporate Headquarters, Plano, Texas Gideon Toal Architects,

Ericsson CorpHeadquarters

Gideon Toal Architects

Use your sketchbook and Sketch this view, note qualities

Homework: Sketch the 2nd FloorStudent Organization area of theStudent Union Building. Diagram the plan and note qualities.