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Brown, Robert; Viccica, Paul; Vinick, Martin – School Planning & Management, 2002
Describes "black box theaters," an increasingly important part of performance arts facilities on school campuses. Discusses the benefits of this design and five design characteristics (keeping it small, providing circulation, creating a mezzanine gallery, reconsidering black, and remembering storage space) that help to optimize performance quality…
Descriptors: Design Preferences, Educational Facilities, Flexible Facilities, Multipurpose Classrooms
Stephens, Suzanne – Progressive Architecture, 1975
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, college students expressed their feelings toward impersonal, highrise, linoleum-and-formica residence halls by moving off campus in droves. Now, colleges are building more varied and flexible lowrise student housing in an effort to better accommodate students' housing preferences. (JG)
Descriptors: Architecture, College Housing, Design Preferences, Dormitories
Download full textEducational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY. – 1960
A summary is presented of a conference of architects and educators concerned with the architectural implications of Images of the Future, a booklet offering ideas for the qualitative improvement of the nation's secondary schools. In the conference proceedings emphasis is given to implications concerned with the maturity of students and the…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architecture, Building Design, Building Systems
Murphy, Judith
Following a consideration of the middle school and the educational concepts involved, profiles are presented of eleven middle schools designed with a sense of innovation, adaptability, and matching institutions to the needs and potentials of children. Some of the schools are wholly committed to innovation from team teaching to ultimate…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Design, Design Preferences, Educational Facilities Design
Clinchy, Evans – 1961
Nine elementary and junior high schools designed to house team teaching programs are described. The buildings are representative of pioneer efforts to design facilities for team teaching which is defined as, "the cooperative planning for and teaching of various sized groups of students in flexible teaching spaces allowing for rapid shifting of…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Design Preferences, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Schools
Clinchy, Evans – 1960
A profile of a high school is presented in which the building design features provided versatile interior space and provisions for future expansion. In briefly describing the educational bases of the building design, two items are emphasized--(1) why the school was designed as it was, and (2) how it was designed and built. Schematics and…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architecture, Building Design, Building Systems
Clinchy, Evans – 1960
A profile is presented of a circular, air conditioned elementary school designed to be adaptable to almost any kind of educational program--its space can be rearranged by means of movable and operable walls to meet changes in the existing program or to accommodate the school to future programs involving classes of varying sizes. The description…
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Architectural Character, Building Design, Design Preferences
Clinchy, Evans – 1960
A profile is presented of a high school designed so that its academic spaces are completely adaptable--changes in the program can be quickly reflected in the building through the easy rearrangement of partitions. The profile emphasizes why the school was designed as it was and how it was designed and built. Schematics and photographs are included…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Design, Building Systems, Design Preferences
HOROWITZ, HAROLD – 1967
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COLLEGE PLANNING AND THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES IS EXPLORED IN THIS PAPER. AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE--(1) THE CAMPUS SITE PLAN, (2) GROUP ATTITUDES AND PREFERENCES, (3) SPACE RELATIONSHIPS, (4) FLEXIBILITY AND OBSOLESCENCE, AND (5) THE CAMPUS POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. THE POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE ARE…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, College Housing, Computers, Design Preferences
