Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution

About this book

Featuring shedworkers and shedbuilders from around the world who are leading the alternative workplace revolution Shedworking looks at why having a shed office is a greener way of working improves the work-life balance and accelerates ones productivity. Inspired by the authors Shedworking website which has been internationally acclaimed for the groundbreaking scale of its architectural coverage the book features many previously unpublished images of garden offices and shed-like atmospheres: offices on roofs sheds inside "traditional" offices and even sheds on wheels as well as cutting-edge Le Corbusier-designed models for the back garden all-glass shed offices and buildings "built" using living trees. Along the way it offers a whistle-stop tour of famous sheds from Pliny the Youngers summerhouse and the retreats of 19th-century composers Edvard Grieg and Gustav Mahler to award-winning 21st-century fantasy writer Neil Gaimans gazebo. In short Shedworking offers a manifesto for those wanting to change their working lives for the better and go to work in the garden.