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)

On May 26-27, 1971, the Building Research Institute, in cooperation with 20 industrial corporations, conducted a 2 1/2-day international, interdisciplinary Air Structures Forum in Chicago. The Forum was designed to provide those having a special interest in air-supported structures with the opportunity to review and discuss the state-of-the-art.…

Primary influences on a community college building design such as site, educational program, and budget produce building designs that are different in each case. However, because of the community college's unique educational role, these variables are multiplied almost infinitely. The three primary education objectives of most community colleges…

Multistory buildings, supported by internal air pressure and surrounded by a thin, flexible or rigid membrane acting both as structural container and external cladding, are feasible and highly economical for a number of building applications. (Author)

Special architectural additions to campuses can enable handicapped persons to attend college as normal individuals. (HS)