School building technology and systems techniques permit fast, economical design and construction of school additions. (Author)

The San Francisco State University Student Union is a futurist design of two steel space-frame pyramids. Each contains a stairway leading to four partial floors that diminish in size as the pyramid tapers. (Author/MLF)

A fast-tracked technical school in Chicago is another tribute to this method of construction. Related articles are EA 504 766 (American School and University; v46 n7 Mar 74) and EA 504 854 (American School and University; v46 n8 Apr '74). Illustrated. (Author/MLF)

A list of definitions intended to correct the often indiscriminate use of architectural terms. (Author/MF)

Industrial materials are used in the new gymnasium at St. Mary's College, a Catholic women's affiliate of the University of Notre Dame. (Author/MLF)

A new library constructed of industrial materials provides light and a comfortable interior. (MLF)

The Progressive Architecture Awards Jury included applied research for the first time this year. In the special category of "research framework and structure" an award was given the city of Boston for a research program which will administer research and design projects from inception of an idea through research, to design and feedback.…

A linear high school derives its form from site parameters, its dual scale from vehicular and pedestrian viewpoints, and its materials from industrial conventional applications. (Author)

Given a progressive educational program, Seattle architects and their engineers use a space truss framing systems to answer many typical problems of budget, expandability, and fabrication. (Author)

Playing up the mechanical/structural elements of buildings to let the interiors derive expression from the building has gained wide acceptance with designers. A systems building for Milton Keynes (a new town in England), an office building lobby, and a child care center in New York illustrate how similar principles, applied to varied problems by…

To hold down construction costs of student housing, Brockport College decided on a fixed-cost competition, in which architects had to team up with contractors. The winning firm used a French industrialized building system and exterior panels of weathered steel to construct a village of 27 four-story buildings. (JG)

The world's longest skylighted galleria (main street for student residents at the University of Alberta) is the lifeline of a 950-foot long complex of apartments and shops sponsored by the student government and architecturally designed to fit over an existing street. (Author/MF)

Skillful handling of a science complex for the State University of New York at Binghamton expresses society's concept of the goals of technology and questions about values generated by those standards. The spatial organization and systems of the buildings meet the pragmatic needs of science; however, the design does not succeed in expressing…