Boston's innercity students are proud and protective of their neighborhoods. Historic Neighborhood's Foundation (HNF) has helped to change students' attitudes toward their school's neighborhood. "City/Build," a program started by HNF for high school students, involves community architects and developers. (SI)

Processes of knowledge production by professional architects and architects-in-training were studied and compared. Both professionals and students were involved in the production of knowledge about the architectural heritage of historical buildings in Cape Town. In a study of the artefacts produced, observations of the processes by means of which…

The Educational Facilities Laboratories (EFL), an independent research organization established by the Ford Foundation, opened its doors in 1958 under the direction of Harold B. Gores, a distinguished educator. Its purpose was to help schools and colleges maximize the quality and utility of their facilities, stimulate research, and disseminate…

Discusses records made of the London Weather Centre indicative of concentrated sunshine symmetrically about noon, which provides a probability of sunshine occurring on vertical surfaces to be greatest for south facing walls. Concludes that design recommendations should be based on available, rather than on theoretically possible, sunshine duration…

Recommendations include: (1) Combine the architectural library with other departments when feasible; (2) Subsidize central library funding with departmental funding for new acquisitions; (3) Attempt to acquire one full-time professional librarian. (Author/PG)

Traces the development of Harvard University through three centuries of decentralization, complexity, and diversity. (Author/MLF)

Examined preferences for physical design characteristics of group living facilities of 229 congregate apartment residents, 205 older community residents, and 44 experts. Found that older groups of subjects had similar physical design preferences, whereas experts preferred more physical features than did older adults. (Author/NB)

Special architectural additions to campuses can enable handicapped persons to attend college as normal individuals. (HS)

Describes the development and implementation of a program in which students in Portland, Oregon, learn about architecture, urban history, and urban growth by exploring the city, studying its buildings, examining social, political, and economic influences on the environment, speaking with people in the neighborhoods, and using city resources. (MJL)

The Architectural Record's Building Types Studies, now forty years old, exist as a compendium of raw material for an esthetic, stylistic, sociopolitical, and technological evaluation of contemporary U.S. architecture as it actually was built. (Author/MLF)

This book, written by authors representing 12 countries and five continents, is a collection of international perspectives on distance learning and distance learning implementations in higher education. The perspectives are presented in the form of practical case studies of distance learning implementations, research studies on teaching and…

Describes the research and development of the divisible auditorium in schools and colleges. (Author/MLF)

An overview of literature on research dealing with adult learning and the physical environment discusses three elements of the research: (1) the reductionistic approaches; (2) the notable exceptions; and (3) the functional environment. Conclusions are made regarding the future direction of research involving adult learning and the physical…