The National Humanities Center in North Carolina has individual studies that provide absolute privacy for each scholar, and a commons, with lounges and a dining room, placed to encourage interaction. (Author/MLF)

The Undergraduate Science Center at Harvard University provides interiors that are an "appropriate science environment, attractive to students," the jury said in selecting it for one of the 1979 AIA Honor Awards. (Author/MLF)

Outlines how an information company--the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)--designed a new building to house its facility. Problems and deficiencies in the old work space were analyzed using a rigorous systems approach, and an open-plan system was devised to allow for optimum space utilization and energy efficiency. (CWM)

Discusses recommendations for designing or redesigning library buildings for easy navigability. Signage, maps, collection arrangements, and placement of emergency exits must take into account observed traffic patterns, spatial or objective orientations of individual patrons, and patrons with disabilities. Contains 63 references. (BEW)

Widely differing local conditions, increased community participation in education, more lifelong education, and decentralization of schools are factors which should affect the architecture of rural primary schools in Pakistan. Also significant are the results of a 1977 survey which indicate that building quality is unrelated to school attendance…