Joint use of school and community facilities is considered in a collection of reports organized under the following general headings--(1) cooperative planning for creative learning, living and leisure, (2) design for learning, living and leisure, and (3) balancing quality and economy in schoolhouse planning. (FS)

Suggestions for school shops are presented in three general areas--(1) planning, (2) layouts, and (3) tools and equipment. Within the planning area, two types of shop programs are discussed--(1) industrial arts education, and (2) trade and industrial education. Layouts and floor plans are provided for the following shops: auto mechanics, building…

The planning of facilities for early childhood education should be a part of a larger, comprehensive plan for educational services in the community. Early childhood education should not be an uncoordinated appendage tacked on to the existing patterns of education in organization, programing, or staffing. A number of diverse persons and agencies…

The ideas behind cost-conscious schools. (Author)

By transferring park land to the school committee, state support was obtained for renovating a park and building Lincoln Park Community School within its boundaries. (Author/MLF)

Alief Independent School District, Texas, has been successful in obtaining energy efficient designs for its new schools by developing energy goals prior to the selection of architects and engineers. Features of four projects designed to conserve energy are described. (Author/MLF)

The Terraset school design in Reston, Virginia, has met with immediate acceptance by students and the community. Its low energy consumption has made it a model for similar schools in Fairfax, Virginia, and Forth Worth, Texas. (MLF)

Every artist-educator dreams of that perfect creative atmosphere where a professional level of imaginative productivity blends with industrial efficiency and artistic whim. Here teachers and architects work together to build the new art building at the University of Hawaii with the intention of providing that atmosphere. (Author/RK)

The American Institute of Architects honored five recently completed university buildings whose architects solved the difficulties of site and scale: Columbia University's Computer Science Building, Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art, Emory's Museum of Art, Princeton's Lewis Thomas Laboratory, and the University of California at Irvine's Computer…

Describes how a Michigan school district transformed several free-standing, "warm-weather" high school buildings into clustered areas connected by enclosed corridors. Space is now grouped by instructional area or the use of related equipment, and the building shell is tight and energy-efficient. (MLH)

Described is a project being conducted by the Physics Institute of the University of San Luis Potori, Mexico, in order to avoid concentrating physics education and research activities in Mexico City. (SL)

This paper describes the Nordic "School of Tomorrow" network of educational buildings. It is commonly agreed among the Nordic countries that no one optimal school exists, but that there are many suitable architectural answers. The Network, established in 2000, meets once a year to exchange and discuss knowledge, experience, and ideas…

The Harbour School in Baltimore County, Maryland and provides a unique and outstanding setting that was designed to enhance and support the programs and services required for 125 special-needs students between the ages of 6 and 21. The director of the school, Dr. Linda Jacobs, had previous experience with establishing a school in a commercial…

This book, based on research about libraries around the country, provides tools that can be used for planning and building an academic library space that streamlines access to information. It explains how to incorporate the latest innovations in academic library facility design; how to make the facility flexible for changing information technology…

This booklet presents key areas that educational and physical facilities planners need to know to effectively interface with architects and building designers so students can have the best learning environments possible within the available resources. The booklet maps out how current trends may affect the future of educational facilities planning.…