The San Francisco State University Student Union is a futurist design of two steel space-frame pyramids. Each contains a stairway leading to four partial floors that diminish in size as the pyramid tapers. (Author/MLF)

Industrial materials are used in the new gymnasium at St. Mary's College, a Catholic women's affiliate of the University of Notre Dame. (Author/MLF)

A new library constructed of industrial materials provides light and a comfortable interior. (MLF)

A linear high school derives its form from site parameters, its dual scale from vehicular and pedestrian viewpoints, and its materials from industrial conventional applications. (Author)

Given a progressive educational program, Seattle architects and their engineers use a space truss framing systems to answer many typical problems of budget, expandability, and fabrication. (Author)

Playing up the mechanical/structural elements of buildings to let the interiors derive expression from the building has gained wide acceptance with designers. A systems building for Milton Keynes (a new town in England), an office building lobby, and a child care center in New York illustrate how similar principles, applied to varied problems by…

The world's longest skylighted galleria (main street for student residents at the University of Alberta) is the lifeline of a 950-foot long complex of apartments and shops sponsored by the student government and architecturally designed to fit over an existing street. (Author/MF)