Studied six northern California high schools implementing various educational reforms involving alternative organizational structures, and how their facilities helped or hindered their implementation. (EV)

Describes how techniques such as occupant control, careful sizing of the HVAC equipment, and using a direct digital control (DDC) system have helped the James L. and Evelena S. Oakes Hall at Vermont Law School to be environmentally friendly and save energy. (EV)

Describes the award-winning designs of 35 elementary schools. Includes construction details and photographs. (EV)

Describes the award-winning designs of 21 middle schools. Includes construction details and photographs. (EV)

Describes the award-winning designs of 30 high schools. Includes construction details and photographs. (EV)

Describes the design of a new technical education center at Daytona Beach Community College. The facility was designed to be an educational tool to enhance the curriculum's workforce development efforts. (EV)

Discusses important considerations when designing early childhood facilities, including adequate space, design features that work for both small children and adults, floorcovering, color, and technology. (EV)

Considering the modern context of collaborative learning and information technology, details implications for space design, primarily from the field of environmental psychology--the study of the relationship between people and their physical environment. (EV)

Explores ways in which furniture is at the heart of the flexibility needed to use new approaches to teaching and learning, and to provide for the comfort of learners of different ages and different physical needs. (EV)

Brief paragraphs describe the following 10 trends for future educational design: (1) correlation between environment and program; (2) technology; (3) communications; (4) flexibility; (5) community pride; (6) participatory design; (7) teachers are professionals; (8) extended use; (9) learning styles; and (10) fine arts. (MLF)

Significant changes in the planning and designing of Japanese public elementary and secondary schools are in response to key educational and social changes. Among these are energy and ecology consciousness, lifelong learning, an aging society, and advancement of information technology. Characteristics of a new secondary school are described. (MLF)

Discusses how to design athletic and recreation buildings that satisfy diverse student needs and enhances the facility's repeated use. Five building designs and basic floorplans are examined. (GR)

Discusses design options that can help create a more secure education environment and help staff to supervise students and reduce outside interruptions that can disrupt the learning experience. Suggestions include eliminating stairwells, placing teacher planning rooms strategically along main corridors where they can keep an eye on students, and…

Presents award-winning examples of new school construction designs for a school computer-technology building, an urban elementary school, an early-education center, a fine-arts center, a college lecture hall, a high school freshmen center, a prototype pre-school and kindergarten building, and a school science center. The architectural firms,…

Explains the benefits of dome construction for educational facilities as experienced by students and teachers at one school in Emmett, Idaho. Offers tips on what school administrators and architects can do to build their own dome school. (GR)