Involving the community in the earliest planning of design projects often results in useful suggestions, speeds the design phase, and increases community acceptance of the project. (Author/MLF)

Sarah P. Harkness, architect and designer of the award-winning Bates College Library building in Maine, has ideas about encouraging more women to enter the field of architecture. (MLF)

Before designing Pittsburgh's new Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, which serves patients with severe physical and emotional problems, the architects spent days at the former center and used wheelchairs to get around their office in order to keep the handicapped concept uppermost in the design. (Author/MLF)

Faner Hall, the new home of the humanities and social science departments at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was designed to be flexible and adaptable, (Author)

The difficulties and the accomplishments of an Alaskan-based architectural firm. (MLF)

By building Harvard University's Pusey Library largely below grade, the area's basic topography was preserved. (Author/MLF)

A massive concrete "waffle," riding on a bed of specially treated gravel and sand inside another building, provides the structural rigidity needed by the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. (Author)

Features some of the largest and most dramatic of the air supported structures now in use. (MLF)

The lower 10 floors of a concrete-framed structure in New York City function as a school and the upper 30 as an office tower. (MLF)

A building plan based on six side-by-side hexagonal modules gives flexibility and a distinctive appearance to Pittsburgh's new Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. (Author)

In designing the Educational Facilities Building for Harvard's school of Public Health, the architect had to reconcile a modern building not only with the older structures around it, but also with a trapezoidal site. (Author/MLF)

Multiple-architect designs and a preservative of chain-store identities accomplish visual variety for a one-of-a-kind campus at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and an enclosed shopping mall in Los Cerritos, California. (Author)

Three colleges have joined together a unique planning and construction program that will enable them to share facilities on a common campus. (Author/MLF)

The new Alameda Community College near San Francisco is designed to provide dignity and emphasis to vocational studies. Buildings are organized linearly around an alameda'' (tree-lined promenade) and feature corridorless, non-airconditioned, thin-wall design to capitalize on the mild Bay climate. (Author)

The Brightwood Community School of Springfield, Massachusetts, provides a concrete link to two communities previously separated by railroad tracks and a six-lane highway. (Author/MLF)