New theories and practices in education are making traditional school furniture obsolete; some examples of new furnishings are shown. (Author)

Designing toy stores to appeal to the child instead of the adult shopper. (RA)

A renovation gives the Columbia Law School needed room for offices and also an inviting lounge that is a popular campus rendezvous. (Author/MLF)

Columbia University converts a nursing home into a graduate residence and university offices. (Author/MLF)

In the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, architects have broken some old conventions and rules of good taste in designing offices and a film theater through intelligent use of space and tacky flowered carpeting, garish colors, and automobile hoods and fenders. (Author/MF)

In the new interiors for a student center, the architects play on Temple University's name and the concept of institution, using both graphic and architectural symbolism. (Author/MLF)

Although the new Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a controversial project based on a questionable premise, the finished building is an architectural tour de force. Despite restrictions imposed by the Landmarks Commission and the donor, the architects responded with consummate ingenuity, artistry, and skill. (JG)

The new energy consciousness has led to a thorough reevaluation of how artificial lighting can be used wisely, while other researchers have explored the potential of daylighting as an alternative interior light source. (Author/MLF)

When openness becomes necessary, there is a way to tame its rampant acoustics. (Author)

In the renovation of Lewisohn Hall in the School of General Studies at Columbia University, the lowered ceilings, installed in the 1962 renovation, were removed, thereby re-creating the rectangular spaces that reveal the perimeters of the building's volume. (Author/MLF)

Interior design firms begin to apply computer techniques to space planning, working drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and office procedures. (Author)

Imaginative graphics are conducive to the learning experience in a first-grade classroom. (MLF)

In an old, wood frame school building, a day care facility, based on a modular, movable, and highly flexible series of components, permits active use and almost constant change in a learning situation. (Author)

A dialogue between a manufacturer and an outside research group concerning an interior systems program of partitions, storage, display, and work surface components. (Author/MLF)

Playing up the mechanical/structural elements of buildings to let the interiors derive expression from the building has gained wide acceptance with designers. A systems building for Milton Keynes (a new town in England), an office building lobby, and a child care center in New York illustrate how similar principles, applied to varied problems by…