Facilities Newsfront presents highlights about an art school, a revolving medical school auditorium, a student parking ban, a denunciation of rash mainstreaming, and the monitoring of a solar installation in a Michigan school. (MLF)

A new high school shifts an electrical demand charge load by using an icemaker during nonoperating hours to provide chilled water for producing cool air. A review resulted in a computer being placed in the design to control the electrical demand charge load in addition to spreading the load. (Author/MLF)

Two high-technology new buildings and two renovations were recognized in the 1979 College and University Architecture Competition. (MLF)

The newest of five energy efficient facilities in a Texas school district is the largest air conditioned facility in the United States that is cooled with manufactured ice. (Author/MLF)

The wood frame school in San Jose (California) could be built in most jurisdictions and meet building code requirements of the area. (Author/MLF)

Descriptions, photographs, and the jury's comments on the award-winning architectural projects displayed at the 65th annual meeting of the Association of School Business Officials. Twelve projects are featured in the categories of new school buildings, modernization of existing buildings, and additions to existing buildings. (Author/MLF)

International recommendations concerning school buildings are listed. An annotated bibliography includes 280 annotated citations to materials on various aspects of educational architecture in both developed and developing countries. Arrangement is by topic: management, planning and programming, design for education, environmental design,…

The concept of order-seeking is presented as characteristic of school management and related to adaptability as a strategy for design. The actual patterns of management in four schools are presented from survey data. A proposal for a measure of adaptability is made and illustrated in a hypothetical example. (Author)

Minnesota's Isanti Junior High, designed with an energy efficient variable air volume system, is an innovative school selected for display at the 1977 Exhibition of School Architecture in Las Vegas. (Author/MLF)

Author visits a community school which has dispensed with uniforms, bells, staffrooms, playgrounds, 40-minute lessons--and 0 levels. (Editor/RK)

An evaluation of various plan forms for primary schools analyzes school activities in terms of their acoustic characteristics. The acoustic properties of different teaching spaces and the extent to which these meet the needs of the various types of activity are discussed. (Author/MLF)

Describes an approach to new school design that looks at architectural issues from a different angle: channeling a wide range of information into a targeted collection of ideas on which the architect can then base a design. It includes the collection of both factual and emotional components that are brought together into a final design. (GR)

Architects and interior designers must work closely with teachers and caregivers to learn what is important in a child-care facility. Lists physical attributes of a good child-care facility. Identifies ways in which design elements of scale, adjacency, congruency, flexibility, complexity, and texture affect the environment, and who has primary…

Discusses "pods,""team areas," and "houses" as middle school physical environments that support the type of learning opportunities young adolescents need. Offers examples of such school designs from Cleveland, Tennessee; British Columbia; and Milledgeville, Georgia. Concludes by suggesting specifications for new middle school buildings. (EV)

Presents eight Boston Society of Architects award-winning educational facilities. Provides information on the architectural and project teams, contractors, and consultants, and includes a brief description and photographs. (EV)