With no set schedules dictating the order of jobs, one group building coffee tables had to stop work and wait as the other team, making bookshelves, used the router tables they needed.

FORBES: Green Wood

Teams come to find that there are more ideas in the room than there are at their tables, and still more in the office building, in the city, and beyond.

FORBES: Don't Build That Yourself

His colored glass cubes demonstrate the flexibility of design today: The pieces, reminiscent of children's building blocks, can be mounted on top of each other to make shelves or placed sideways to form coffee tables.

WSJ: Making a Mark in Milan | Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012