Two new buildings at the SOM-planned campus are the first full-scale demonstrations of Walter Netsch's field theory" design. (Author)

The key element in the university master plan is a linear structure that preserves and defines existing green spaces, concentrates activity without violating established scale, and provides pedestrian links. (Author/MLF)

The major special feature of a planned college building is the application of Academic Building System (ABS) planning concepts to the building design and construction. The primary feature of this approach is total future flexibility of general academic space by use of movable and compatible subsystems. These subsystems appear in the form of…

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)

Describes design modifications that permit athletic structures to operate at maximum utilization. (Author/MLF)

An add-on design with easily relocatable partitions, ceilings, lighting, and mechanical devices permits Stockton State College to expand in all directions. (Author)

This report surveys various ways that physical flexibility (immediate and long term) may be incorporated into the design and construction of college buildings. Because flexibility should encompass every subsystem of construction within a building, this publication draws attention to the wide range of elements that must be considered within modular…

This newsletter details the efforts of the University of Alaska to develop a systems approach that will provide facilities for higher education in a State with an area more than three and one half times that of New Jersey, Florida, and Oregon combined. The problem involved in providing appropriate facilities in a State such as Alaska are…