"Working Paper 1" is the first publication of the Center for Advanced Research in Urban and Environmental Affairs of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. It sets out the results of a year-long study made by the Center of the Christopher Street Federal Archive Building, an important landmark of New York's…

Stockton State College in New Jersey shows thoughtful planning with respect to ecology and effective use of the systems approach. (Author/MLF)

Contains four reports on the latest developments in lighting, research and design, and a 10-item annotated energy bibliography. (Author)

In an old, wood frame school building, a day care facility, based on a modular, movable, and highly flexible series of components, permits active use and almost constant change in a learning situation. (Author)

A lightweight enclosure encapsulates 1.4 acres of highly flexible educational space. (Author/MF)

Discussed are issues in the provision of suitable housing for the physically disabled. (DB)

Discusses various ways in which the demand for energy could be decreased, focusing not so much on discouraging demand by increasing prices, as on reducing energy consumption by improving efficiency of energy utilization in buildings and in industry. (JR)

Author finds that children understand architectural concepts more readily when he refers to familiar non-architectural examples of them such as goal posts, chairs, tables, and playground equipment. (GB)

A rebuttal to an article by Robert Jensen, Physician, Heal Thyself (Architectural Forum, June 1973) about McMaster University Health Sciences Center in Hamilton, Ontario. The original article attempted to put architecture into its social context and to discuss the values and images to which it should respond. A reply by Mr. Jensen is included.…

Basic principles pertaining to the planning and financing of construction and to providing construction projects with technical specifications, materials and equipment are suggested to public education officials to deal with school construction that is financed by government capital investments as well as by local initiative. (Author/KM)

Business and professional sectors have initiated some functional and useful planning and design for continuing education facilities in direct response to the needs of users as students and as individuals. Provides several examples of facilities designed to lessen the impact of transplant on students, allow social mingling as well as classroom…

Three new buildings at the University of Iowa show how the architect's maturing field theory could yield three different visual solutions. (Author)

Describes how Highland Park, Illinois, school administrators and board members convinced their community that the Elm Place School -- the oldest school and the most symbolic of the community's cultural and social heritage -- needed facility upgrading and program improvements. Provides the procedures in acquiring their 68,000 square foot addition…

Schools must be considered as designed environments where individuals should be given maximum opportunity to engage in task activities with a minimum of adverse influences from elements in the designed surroundings. (Author)