Photographs and drawings accompany the descriptions of three innovative new college buildings. (MLF)

Some federal guidelines for boosting utilization; descriptions of two recently completed vocational facilities that incorporate advanced ideas. (Author)

Describes and illustrates an innovative new elementary school in Livonia, Michigan that has a 7,000 square foot library. (JF)

Allegedly the largest air building in the world nears completion as a 5 1/2-acre park of a California college moves indoors. (EA)

New methods change design and speed construction. (Author)

Compares designs of 16 schools, and provides comparative statistics on costs, area figures, space characteristics, and equipment types. (JF)

A comprehensive school design features an integrated youth center and numerous social welfare facilities intended to extend the use and influence of the school beyond school hours and school years. (Author/MF)

Discusses the facets of building design which affect the accessibility of libraries for the physically disabled and presents some basic guidelines for designing accessible libraries. Types of disabilities, questions relating to site design, and specific architectural and physical features of libraries (entranceways, lighting, stairways, and…

This discussion of the interrelationship of library buildings, library functions, and library management is illustrated by a description of problems encountered when the University of Guelph McLaughlin Library moved into a new building. Illustrative material is provided. (EJS)

The teaching of technology in the early years and, in particular, in the first and second year architectural design studios, is discussed. Technology implies performance, which may be measured in nonvisual ways, and implies the application of scientific principles to the building design process. (MLW)

For architecture students, a laboratory is seen as the most natural and productive way of learning about building construction. An introductory construction course at MIT is described that includes lectures, assigned readings, homework exercises, field trips to construction sites, and a weekly laboratory for hands-on experience. (MLW)

It is proposed that the various classes of a priori knowledge incorporated in heuristic reasoning processes exert a strong influence over architectural design activity. Some design problems require exercise of some provisional set of rules, inference, or plausible strategy which requires heuristic reasoning. A case study illustrates this concept.…