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Monumental Stairs: How Computational Design Guided Collaboration and Innovation at the U.S. Air Force Academy

Clark Nesxen

Embodying this blend of heritage – and future – focus ed design is the building’s striking centerpiece: a monumental staircase winding through its core inspired by the spiral staircase in the McDermott Library on campus. Twisting and Turning Forward The path to creating this central staircase wasn’t direct.

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The Next Chapter for Public Libraries: How Current and Future Trends are Shaping the Libraries of Tomorrow

Clark Nesxen

Over the last few years, public libraries have transitioned from being buildings that only store and lend books to being fully featured community centers. The most successful public libraries are designed with people in mind and with the help of the community they serve. What is most important to those who use the library?

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Uncover Success: Top 5 Cities for Historical/Archival Research Internships

AIFS Abroad

Wander through cobblestone streets lined with breathtaking architecture, admire masterpieces in world-famous galleries, and savor Tuscan cuisine in charming trattorias. Trinity College Dublins Long Room Library, home to the famous Book of Kells, also boasts a collection of rare manuscripts.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences.

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Ambow Education Facing Financial Collapse (Dahn Shaulis and Glen McGhee*)

Higher Education Inquirer

In 2017 and 2020, Ambow ventured into US for-profit colleges, acquiring Bay State College (BSC) in Boston and NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) in San Diego. Despite the elimination of its physical library and its receipt of US government bailout funds , Bay State College continues to lose money.

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Alumni Perspective: Favorite Part of Taking Classes Abroad with AIFS

AIFS Abroad

This class gave me most of my new friends and forced me out of my comfort zone going into art museums and looking at architecture in a new light. Down into the library, a small and narrow room became my first class of the week for 4 months. I definitely wouldn’t have seen as much of the city if it had not been for this class.

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Where do we go from here? (Martin Luther King, 1967)

Higher Education Inquirer

And when our organization was formed ten years ago, racial segregation was still a structured part of the architecture of southern society. Negroes in desperate need of allowing their mental buckets to sink deep into the wells of knowledge were confronted with a firm no when they sought to use the city libraries.