This document describes a new $168 million 14-story building for Baruch College of the City University of New York located near Gramercy Park in Manhattan and containing 40 percent of Baruch's total campus area in one building envelope. The report outlines the design challenges and resolutions and provides numerous design drawings, floor plans,…

Declining enrollments and the current economic recession in higher education have forced colleges and universities to suspend or cutback plans for new construction and consider re-use of existing buildings. One candidate for rehabilitation is the campus chapel. (Author)

Describes the design of Torgersen Hall, the new home for the Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center at Virginia Tech, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on architects, consultants, and cost, as well as floor plans and photographs. (EV)

Describes the design of the building named in the title, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on architects, consultants, suppliers, and cost, as well as floor plans and photographs. Discusses how the modern structure fits into the historic campus. (EV)

Describes the design of the creative arts building named in the title, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on architects, consultants, suppliers, and cost, as well as floor plans and photographs. Discusses how the modern structure fits into the campus. (EV)

Describes the design of the University of Minnesota's expansion of its Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex, which included a new entrance (the Hall of Traditions) and weight-training gym. Includes the floor plan and photographs. (EV)

Four ingredients are essential when providing campus architects/engineers with adequate information for appropriate building design: specific functions of the new building, guidelines for how the building should relate to its natural surroundings, regard for how each space fits into the next-larger space, and expectations for architectural…

In considering the team approach to architectural service, emphasis is given to the advantages of many specialists working together to solve complex building problems. An actual use of the team approach is described to illustrate how Caudill, Rowlett and Scott Architects solved the problems in planning a science building for Colorado College. The…

Describes the design of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, a partnership institution aimed at nontraditional students, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on the architects, as well as a floor plan and photographs. (EV)

Describes the design of numerous school buildings (pre-K to college), including their educational context and design goals. Includes information on the size, cost, and development team, and provides the floor plan and photographs. Concludes with an architects and manufacturers index. (EV)

Describes the Desert Willow Library and Classroom Building, Mesquite Student Services and Administration Building, Palo Verde Science Laboratories and Classroom Building, and Ironwood Central Plant of the title college, including educational context and design goals. Includes a general description; information on the architect, construction team,…

Describes the design of the building named in the title, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on architects, consultants, suppliers, and cost, as well as floor plans and photographs. Discusses how the modern structure fits into the campus. (EV)

Describes the university building named in the title in Ohio, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on the architects, manufacturers/suppliers, and construction team; a general building description; and a case study of construction costs and specifications. Also provides the floor plan and photographs. (EV)

This report, the third in a series which presents the results of a systems analysis of the problem of providing science and engineering buildings at the university level, is a technical manual for using the Academic Building Systems (ABS) approach in programing, designing, and constructing such facilities. The document presents (1) planning…

This book explores how universities relate their built environment to academic discourse, asserting that the character of universities is often a charming dialogue between order and disarray. It contains numerous photographs and building plans for example campuses throughout the world. In part 1, "The Campus," chapters are: (1) "Academic Mission…