This article explains how a project owner can be an active participant during the design and construction of his/her facility. The author discusses the two levels of participation the project owner needs to actively work with the design and construction team. And he further states that a project owner can enrich his/her personal experience and…

Purpose: The aim of this work is to examine the relationship between aspects of objective and perceived housing and aspects of healthy aging, defined as independence in daily activities and subjective well-being. Furthermore, this research examined the comparability of relationships between housing and healthy aging in the five European countries.…

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…

The Educational Facilities Laboratories (EFL), an independent research organization established by the Ford Foundation, opened its doors in 1958 under the direction of Harold B. Gores, a distinguished educator. Its purpose was to help schools and colleges maximize the quality and utility of their facilities, stimulate research, and disseminate…

This checklist is intended to help churches evaluate the accessibility of their facilities to those with physical disabilities. Categories covered are: basic accessibility, parking lots, walks, ramps, entrances/exits, doors and doorways, stairs and steps, floors, worship space, rest rooms, controls, water fountains, identification, warning…

What we need are comfortable, identifiable, functional community designs instantly recognizable as libraries. (Author)

A citation from the 23rd P/A Awards Program for the design of an educational environment for 160 children between the ages of two and one-half and five years. (Author/MLF)

The Civic Center in Scarborough, Ontario, has an open interior design that incorporates an atrium. Fire protection elements include automatic sprinklers, provisions for efficient exiting of building occupants, and smoke evacuation by gravity exhaust. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)

"People Pockets" located throughout a two-building complex encourage interaction between students. (Author/MLF)

Building design facilitates interaction between research, teaching, academics, and patient care. (Author/MLF)

Some 40,000 animals of various species and sizes are cared for at this facility used primarily for cancer research. (Author/MLF)

Considered the need Poland has for a collective memory of its past, a history by which it can grow again. (RK)

The new Architecture and Design Building at the University of Michigan will provide students with an unusual example of functional design and of basic building materials. (Author)

This facility on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota emphasizes a diagonal circulation path and preserves campus space. (Author/MLF)

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