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)

An AIA Honor Award was given for the Pembroke Dormitories at Brown University. The dormitories, said the jury, are an "outstanding example of weaving an institution into the urban fabric." (Author/MLF)

One of the ten buildings chosen to receive 1976 AIA honor awards, Whig Hall, reconstructed after fire destroyed the interior, contains 10,000 square feet of space in the original shell for classrooms, reception, and meeting rooms. (Author/MLF)

A historical perspective of the use of color on both the interior and exterior of buildings. (Author/MLF)

A contemporary building wraps around a mid-19th century landmark, preserving the old building but providing enlarged space for many campus activities at Vassar College. (Author/MLF)

One of the ten buildings chosen to receive 1976 AIA honor awards, is a complex consisting of a dormitory for 800 students, a dining facility that serves 400 at a time, and student activity rooms. (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)

An AIA Honor Award was presented for an athletic facility at St. Mary's College. All elements are exposed and painted bright colors to differentiate functions. Walls are transparent panels to admit as much light as possible. (Author/MLF)

In modern architecture of the 1970s, esthetic choices that appear regularly are "historicism,""high-tech," and "slick style." The Brooklyn Children's Museum is one of the many examples photographed. (Author/MLF)

A highly regarded project of the early '60s as seen by its users, 11 years later. (Author)

This large high school is divided vertically according to function. The areas most frequently used by the largest number of students are on the first floor. (Author/MLF)

Holyoke Center, most successful of Harvard University's first-generation high-rises, combines under one roof, but in separate towers, the University's health services and administration. (Author/MLF)

One of the ten buildings chosen to receive 1976 AIA honor awards, the arts center houses the departments of sculpture, painting, graphics, advertising art, photography, and industrial design. (Author/MLF)