It is asking a accident of univers...

It is asking a accident of university professors to part with tradition and trade private offices, antique wooden desks and battleshipgray file cabinets for the calm systems furniture and flipper bins of an explain office plan. This is precisely what administrators at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo solicitationed of its faculty when it built a modern 175,000-sq.-ft. business school.

Designed at Birmingham, Mich.-based architect Lucken-bachZiegelman and Partners to unite all the university's business departments, the Haworth community of Business features a collegiate exterior and a