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245 00 Architecture for education : new school designs from the 
       Chicago competition. 
260    Chicago, Ill. :|bBusiness and Professional People for the 
       Public Interest,|c2002 
300    1 v. (various pagings) :|bill. plans (some col.) ;|c25 cm.
500    "The Chicago Public Schools Design Competition, entitled 
       "Big Shoulders, Small Schools," was a groundbreaking 
       effort to add value to Chicago's aggressive school 
       construction agenda and boost public awareness of the 
       civic importance of innovative school architecture."--pp. 
       [1.3]. 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520 0  If the environment that surrounds us affects us in both 
       subtle and direct, immediate and lasting ways, then the 
       architecture of our schools is of profound importance. To 
       this end, the National Endowment for the Arts and the 
       Chicago-based Business and Professional People for the 
       Public Interest joined forces to respectively sponsor and 
       administer a juried public school design competition. The 
       criteria for the competition were that the schools should 
       provide intimate learning environments and that they 
       should be economic to build, universally accessible, 
       reflective of their commun 
650  0 School buildings|xDesigns and plans 
650  0 School environment 
650  0 Architecture|xCompetitions|zIllinois|zChicago