David A. Hansen

Over the course of three decades, David Hansen has participated, in the way only an architect can, in the rethinknig of the modern corporation. Since joining Perkins+Will in 1986, he has presided over the architectural image-making and business-process 're-engineering' for the likes of Bank One, W.W. Grainger, Kraft, and Sears Roebuck - not to mention numerous companies in Asia and the Middle East. It has been in the United States, however, and mainly during the 1990s, that his work has been most influential. The projects selected for this volume illustrate Hansen's theory on the effect that architecture has on defining the culture and values of a corporation, and show his work explores ways to increase workplace performance by aligning a buildings functions with the business objectives of a corporation.