A large high school in Oak Park, Illinois, has saved energy since 1971 with gradual changes and a committee to generate new ideas and win support. (Author/MLF)

Boston's Jamaica Plain High School is a bright, colorful facility that belies that building's former life as a utilitarian warehouse. (Author)

Cautions against underestimating children's intelligence and describes the development of the award winning book, "Building: The Fight against Gravity." (MKM)

An imaginative joint effort by public and private interests revived the former Ridgefield High School (Connecticut) and transformed it into an executive office building. It will eventually revert to the town for another use. (Author/MLF)

An analysis of the architectural characteristics of Kresge College at the University of California Santa Cruz. (MLF)

The plan outlined in this article can yield quick results, lay the foundation for any systematic future programs, and be established with a minimum of outside help. For a program to be successful, a commitment to energy conservation must be made at the highest level. (Author/IRT)

Two government clients, the state of California, and the Tennessee Valley Authorit y, are encouraging building design that reduces the use of energy. (Author)

The National Humanities Center in North Carolina has individual studies that provide absolute privacy for each scholar, and a commons, with lounges and a dining room, placed to encourage interaction. (Author/MLF)

An AIA Honor Award was given for the Pembroke Dormitories at Brown University. The dormitories, said the jury, are an "outstanding example of weaving an institution into the urban fabric." (Author/MLF)

The Legal Research Center for Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, was designed to allow existing facilities to dominate, to continue a linear development of a steep nonlinear site, and to connect gracefully to adjacent buildings. (Author/MLF)

The classrooms of the Franklin County (Virginia) Continuing Education Center are in a modular building constructed to replace one destroyed by fire. (MLF)

The long spinelike classroom and office building extending down the campus of Southern Illinois University is an example of how new construction can synthesize and organize an older environment. (Author/MLF)

Winners of the Association of School Business Officials International's 1996 Awards for Excellence in Architectural Design include Perkins & Will, of Chicago, for designing the Fort Collins (CO) High School and Kingscott Associates, Inc., of Kalamazoo, for designing the Lincoln Consolidated Middle/High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Awards of…

Describes the exterior renovation of Central Lee Community School District's high school, near Donnellson, Iowa, particularly the installment of a standing-seam metal roof system and other energy-related improvements. (EV)

Describes how two colleges are combining historical renovation with state-of-the-art design. The historic Thompson House on the campus of Austin College, Texas, is now a modern building adapted to the computer age with appropriate restoration to the aesthetic grandeur of the late 19th century. Yale University's Lillian Goldman Law Library now…