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Record W4408889591 · doi:10.1080/13602365.2025.2458022

‘A facility based on change’: architecture and facility management

2025· article· en· W4408889591 on OpenAlex
Joseph Clarke

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Architecture · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicFacilities and Workplace Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFacility managementArchitectureChange management (ITSM)Engineering managementEngineeringSystems engineeringArchitectural engineeringProcess managementBusinessOperations managementHistory

Abstract

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This article explores the development of the facility management profession in the 1960s and 70s in relation to the discipline of architecture. Postwar designs for large, modular offices resonated with the radical visions of responsive environments put forward by Yona Friedman, Cedric Price, and other neo-futurist architects, but raised practical challenges of implementing change and reconciling conflicting user desires. Trained architects might have seemed ideally suited to mediate relationships between organisations, users, and buildings on an ongoing basis, but facility management ultimately became a separate industry. To explain why, the article explores how the firms Quickborner Team, Herman Miller, and DEGW identified new forms of expertise in managing spatial change. By the late 1970s, the early optimism that flexible work environments would increase users’ autonomy receded, and economic shifts undermined utopian hopes that facility management would mature into a subdiscipline of architecture. As corporate real estate became a fungible commodity, facility management evolved into a paramanagerial function charged with planning and maintaining efficient layouts of office cubicles and computer infrastructure.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.931
Threshold uncertainty score0.602

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it