Purpose: The paper describes the purpose of and strategies for conducting post-occupancy evaluations (POEs) as a method for assessing school building performance. Set within the larger context of global efforts to develop and apply common indicators of school building quality, the authors describe research conducted within the newest generation of…

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…

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)

More building projects than in 1973, although they're smaller, and include many more renovations and additions. (Author)

A rectangular "core" area, surrounded on three sides by a U-shaped structure provides a fundamental layout that separates the law library from the instructional facility at the John Lord O'Brien Hall, home of the Amherst Law School at Buffalo, New York. A 350-seat, multilevel, soundproofed courtroom has been provided, where the New York State…