A critical analysis of the failure of apprenticeship outreach programs and hometown plans to eliminate patterns of racial discrimination in employment in the construction industry. (EH)

Glass curtain walls at George Gund Hall, housing Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and windowless classrooms at a junior high school next to Chicago's O'Hare Airport help to solve special problems while creating aesthetically pleasing buildings. (Author/MLF)

The State legislature has made available $196 million to plan, construct, and equip vocational-technical schools. (Author)

Renovations provide a new media center, some flexible space, and a new spirit. (Author/MLF)

This manual presents, in illustrated form, the protective measures needed to save educational buildings from the effects of earthquakes. The information may be used at the community level as a guide to the construction of earthquake resistant educational buildings. Primarily, the manual deals with the construction techniques used for school…

A description of a sophisticated application of computer techniques to the analysis of a collection of picture postcards of library buildings in an attempt to establish the minimum architectural requirements needed to distinguish one style of library building from another. (Author)

Why a functional television studio requires more than unoccupied floor space. (Author)

Seven years after the Brooklyn Navy Yard was closed, the Yard was reopened through the efforts of Seatrain Shipbuilding Corporation to build oil tankers. A training program for unemployed and unskilled minority group members in the area of the yard was established through JOBS, revitalizing an economically depressed area. (AG)

Author considered how schools can cut the cost of insurance in almost all areas without endangering their continued existence. (Author/RK)

In a pinch for spaces a New Jersey school district turned an abandoned supermarket into an open plan school -- in two short months, for less than $1.40 per square foot. Remodeling was accomplished by a few vocational education students, their teachers, and parents. (Author)

Explores the idea that both the design and the use of buildings are part of a general human learning process concerned with the use of space. Argues that researchers face the need to bridge the gap between designers and users on the one hand and "objective" observers on the other. Gives a critique of some current methods of research in buildings…

Describes modernization efforts at Brookline, Massachusetts, for the Edward Devotion Elementary School; Richmond, Massachusetts, for the Richmond School; and at Springfield, Massachusetts, for the M. Marcus Kiley Junior High School. (JF)

This continuing series on energy conservation looks at opportunities for savings in new building construction. (Author)

The mechanical devices used to heat and cool a totally air conditioned elementary school are exposed to the students' view so that the teachers can explain to their pupils the basic mechanicss of heating and cooling. (Author)

The special issue of the journal, Children in Contemporary Society, contains 17 brief articles on environmental design for young handicapped and normal children. Articles have the following titles: "Introduction", "Environmental Design and Architecture", "Why Is Environmental Design Important to Young Children", "Children's Hospital National…