Robert Propst had been committed to the idea of the empowered worker. He knew that good design meant giving workers control over their own environment. But he was helpless in the face of corporate bosses more interested in saving money than in his progressive design ideals. Propst was left to condemn the perversion of his ideas as “monolithic insanity,” “hellholes,” “egg-carton geometry,” and “barren, rat-hole places.”
