Economical school construction does not have to result in a barren, stark appearance or in small, box-like learning spaces. (Author)

A totally electric facility offers efficiency and attractiveness while providing the most in practicality. (Author)

An open classroom school is designed for an ungraded, team taught elementary program at Ridge Hill School in Hamden, Connecticut. (Author)

Some federal guidelines for boosting utilization; descriptions of two recently completed vocational facilities that incorporate advanced ideas. (Author)

A recently constructed New York elementary school is an example of how cities are finding ways to provide quality education for children in facilities that assume the additional role of community centers during after-school hours. (MF)

Available data can establish physical environment design criteria to facilitate learning in handicapped children. (Author/EA)

A landscaping approach aimed at integrating greatly contrasting building types and materials resulting from unplanned growth used these elements to create design continuity; paving, planting, landscape furniture, planting and lawn protection, signs, lights, placement of posters and notices, and bicycle racks. (MSE)

The Macey Center is a solar-heated theater built to combine the conference, drama, and fine arts facilities at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. (MLF)

A school of nursing combines dormitories, classrooms, administrative offices, and a public interior courtyard into a structure incorporating Mediterranean, Bauhaus, Corbusian, and high-tech influences. (Author/JM)