The Science building at the University of California at Santa Cruz, was originally designed as an engineering educational facility, but when completed emerged as a combination of School of Applied Sciences and administration. (Author/MF)

Resource optimization in building design is based on the total system over its expected useful life. Alternative environmental systems can be evaluated in terms of resource costs and goal effectiveness. (Author/MF)

A young, St. Louis, Missouri, architectural firm, seeking a personal style of practice, has succeeded in creating structures that reveal client input, and which are sensitive, articulate, and at ease with complexity. Describes an elementary school, a condominium, a shopping mall, a high school, and a "community mall." Illustrated with photographs…

A comprehensive career education program which uses varieties of audiovisual aids for aurally handicapped students, 4 through 21 years of age, at the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf is described. (MC)

Describes a systems-designed elementary school in Plymouth, Indiana, designed to serve current and future needs efficiently and effectively. (JF)

Building on air rights is not just a matter of putting one building on top of another to save money; two New York architects discuss their experiences and opinions. (Author)

Discusses the reasons why conventional classroom facilities won't work for continuing education. Illustrates how one continuing education center was designed and built and suggests how flexibility can be built into a facility without the use of movable partitions. (DN)

Architects of a newly constructed urban middle school solved the space problem by designing the roof to serve both as a school playground mand as a community park. (Author/EA)

Describes what the interaction between the trend to centralized control of building operation and the increased capabilities of computers means to building design and operation today and in the future. (Author/DN)

The new Alameda Community College near San Francisco is designed to provide dignity and emphasis to vocational studies. Buildings are organized linearly around an alameda'' (tree-lined promenade) and feature corridorless, non-airconditioned, thin-wall design to capitalize on the mild Bay climate. (Author)

Describes and evaluates several avant garde'' examples of air structures. Included are a soft'' child's playpen, a pneudome that employs a water ballast for anchoring, a one-acre enclosed campus, an instant city'' constructed for an industrial design conference, and the Fuji Pavilion, at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, that was large enough to cover…

A structure is designed for 200 doctors and students to use in conjunction with the University of Oregon Medical School's Crippled Children's Divison. (Author)

Conclusion drawn from this analysis is that it is necessary to pay more attention to cultural background and social environment of schools, not simply the open classroom. (MB)

The principal problem of the architect lies in satisfying the needs of his client. (CK)

A description of the physical facilities, curriculum, and personnel of the open school". (SP)