A therapeutic recreation center for the retarded and handicapped is proving that barrier-free design has come of age. (Author/MLF)

A library for the blind and physically disabled represents an inventive response to design problems of a social and formal nature. (Author/MLF)

Building on air rights is not just a matter of putting one building on top of another to save money; two New York architects discuss their experiences and opinions. (Author)

A music education and performance facility for students, 90 percent of whom are legally blind, demonstrates that it is possible to produce exciting design for the handicapped. (Author/MLF)

The new faculty club at Pennsylvania State University designed by Venturi and Rauch, is praised for its siting, but criticized for the institutional colors of the interior and lack of accommodation to human needs. (MLF)

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…