One of the ten buildings chosen to receive 1976 AIA honor awards, the arts center houses the departments of sculpture, painting, graphics, advertising art, photography, and industrial design. (Author/MLF)

The San Francisco State University Student Union is a futurist design of two steel space-frame pyramids. Each contains a stairway leading to four partial floors that diminish in size as the pyramid tapers. (Author/MLF)

The project goal was to make available to higher education the advantages of the system developed for English school construction. This bulletin describes the various stages in the project. Differences between building system and single building design are discussed; results of investigations into user needs and general performance specifications…

An alternative approach to the study of structures has been introduced at the University of Oregon, and this paper attempts to describe the experiment. The course is a study of the behavior of structure systems and their potential for and influence on architectural space and form. (Author/PG)

Industrial materials are used in the new gymnasium at St. Mary's College, a Catholic women's affiliate of the University of Notre Dame. (Author/MLF)

A truss fabricated from structural tubes cut costs of a multifunction recreation hall at the University of California's Davis campus. (Author/MLF)

This report contains four papers written during an investigation of methods for evaluating the safety of existing school buildings under Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) grants. In "Evaluation of Earthquake Safety of Existing Buildings," by B. Bresler, preliminary ideas on the evaluation of the earthquake safety of existing…

A 19-story building on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus houses the College of Dentistry and basic science teaching facilities. It is both the focal point of an expansion of the university's health sciences complex and a prototype for other buildings that are part of the expansion. (Author/MLF)

THE DESIGN OF THIS FACILITY FOR A PROPOSED SCIENCE CENTER BEGAN WITH AN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATIVE NETWORKS AND OTHER RELATED CONCEPTUAL IMPLEMENTS. EMPHASIZED WERE--(1) FUNCTIONAL RESOURCE LOCATION, (2) INFORMATION EXCHANGE, (3) COMPLIMENTARY FACILITIES, (4) ADAPTATION TO ACTIVITY, (5) ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND SPACE, AND (6) ADAPTIVE…

Academic Building Systems (ABS) is an architectural planning and design method which allows the construction owner to respond to the need for less expensive structures, economically adaptable to the changing conditions of the academic world, by providing the owner with the maximum controls over the variable cost factors in educational facility…