School and classroom facilities should be flexible in design in order to encourage creativity and autonomous learning. Facility designs and their implications are discussed. (MF)

A new civic center houses school administration offices and the juvenile court. (Author)

Center will house teaching, research, and patient care in a structural-mechanical superframe. (Author)

Discusses the possible functions and value of a well designed courtyard in a school building. (JF)

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

A list of definitions intended to correct the often indiscriminate use of architectural terms. (Author/MF)

Two specialists in the field of educational planning and architecture discuss the important considerations an architect must face in designing a school. Emphasized is the need for communication with school administrators and faculty and for an awareness of student needs. (LS)

Noting the difficulty of keeping pace with the continual advancements in instructional technology, the director of the Centre for Educational Television Overseas proposes a facility to "serve the educational resource needs of a sizeable community." Included are a floor plan of the building and an outline of the activities it allows for. (LS)

A critique of the new Goddard Library at Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts). (JB)

A suggestion that the solution to today's high construction costs for library buildings is through systems building, the key to which is dimensional coordination - relating all the elements that go to make up a building in such a way that the parts will fit together with little or no alteration at the construction site. A supplementary…

Located near San Jose, California, this school contains six triadic-shaped classroom pods which radiate from a hub area consisting of a multipurpose room, stage, art center, science area, library, and combination faculty room/instructional materials storage area. (RG)