Large administrative buildings function as complex organisms as a result of various social, economic, scientific as well as technical and cultural factors. The issue has been dealt with based on the observation of a key aspect, namely the worker and its equipment, considering that, like an organism, each element that forms it defines it accurately, in order to achieve an approach to the characteristics of the organism to which it belongs.
The analysis of appropriate architecture for the office work under an introspective look allows us to identify some guidelines that help us find a suitable space to the needs of a company. Tools which have been tested throughout this and last century are now at work’s organization’s disposal. These tools show the mechanism of the work’s system functioning and result. The architectonical answer to each of these organizations do not have so much to do with the time in which they were created, but instead they appeared to stay and last until our days, in some cases with minimal modifications in spite of the great social, structural and most of all, technical changes, which have been developing throughout the last one hundred years.
After this analysis, four different organizations, which are clearly identified, are established. Its internal structures’ geometrical order provide us with a proper name: linear, modular, free and informal, that denotes an increment in the amount of internal disorder. Each of them is a consequence of the social and economic conditions which differ from the current ones. However, if we study them in their original context, we could draw relevant conclusions about its suitability in the office of the 21st century.