[TUHS] Step Into the Real-Life Lumon Industries, the Breakout Star of ‘Severance’

[Charles H Sauer (he/him)]

I really liked working in IBM Building 801, and Saarinen might deserve 
some of the credit, but the people, the semi-rural environment, the 
pleasant bicycle commute 
(https://technologists.com/sauer/songs/swans.html), working from home 
half the time in our 140 year old farm house with view of the Hudson, 
... all probably deserve more of the credit.

I've worked in some other elegant office buildings, e.g., the Dell 
Arboretum Point building in 1989-90, but the best times at Dell were 
after we (development) moved to one-story tilt wall structures in an 
industrial park. Again, it wasn't the building that mattered, but the 
people, the work, working from home, ...

Charlie

On 3/8/2025 6:51 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> I visited PARC a few times and found it salubrious. The culture was
> peculiar (not necessarily in a bad way, but I didn't understand yet
> how SV worked (literally)), but the building was cosy and the people
> seemed happy.
> 
> I sometimes wonder whether the reverence we give to architects is fully earned.
> 
> -rob
> 
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
>>
>> Steve Deering spoke fondly of the PARC building, it's possible some radical architectural ideas work? If i recall the sense of his words it was democratising, communal in spirit.
>>
>> G

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