The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto, Pennsylvania, was a former college gymnasium built in the 1920s now converted into an independent museum. (Author/MLF)

A four-story screenlike "wall" containing stacks, offices, and reading rooms is added to a university library. (Author/MLF)

An award from the 23rd P/A Awards Program for a research report that analyzes the activities around seven Boston community schools and recommends ways to create usable open spaces. (Author/MLF)

The basic principle behind the Olmsted Theater at Adelphi University derives from the emphasis placed upon the spatial relationships between performers and spectators. (Author)

An abandoned supermarket and space in a synagogue are experimental projects that serve as neighborhood centers and enrich preschool childrens' experiences. (Author)

Placing student service buildings underground solved similar space problems at Cornell and the University of Northern Iowa. (Author)

The first phase of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Graduate Center works well within its context. (Author)

A new student union building at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, is oriented both to campus and town, which are on the diagonal to each other. (Author)

Three partially subterranean schools in Santa Ana, California, are expected to have lower heating and cooling costs. Using the roof for recreation avoided the expense of additional inner-city acreage. (Author/MLF)

Domes and bubbles are being utilized to create innovative environments for learning. (Author)

Interior design firms begin to apply computer techniques to space planning, working drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and office procedures. (Author)

One of the spaces in the renovated Carnegie Library in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, is used for a theater with rented seating, stage, production, and costumes returned when no longer needed. (Author/MLF)

Architects have devised a series of computer programs tailored to the planning and to the schematic design of community colleges. (Author)

Plans are presented that transform schools with traditional self-contained classrooms into modern facilities with flexible spaces. (Author)

A P/A architectural design award was given to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for a planned expansion of the college of architecture. Two existing buildings will be incorporated in a complex that uses a tightly restricted area at the campus edge. (Author/MLF)