Toward a Military Construction Model for Quality Architectural Design¹

1 The opinions stated in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent official Corps of Engineers or Department of the Army policy.

An abbreviated form of this article was originally presented as an invited paper to the Symposium on Environmental Design Research in the Social and Political Context at the Fourth Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference in Blacksburg, Virginia, April 1973. Portions of that paper are used here with permission from: Environmental Desigen Research, Symposium and workshops, Volume Two, edited by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, © 1973 by Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross.

Abstract

That the research program reported in this article has evolved to the point it has is a tribute to the enlightened attitudes of the administration at the Office of the Chief of Engineers (OCE) in Washington, D.C., and the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois. In particular, two individuals must be singled out: Mr. Arnold J. Prima, Jr., AIA, who continues to offer superior administrative and technical guidance relative to the mission of OCE in the program to be described, and Mr. Richard W. Cramer, AIA, who is the individual who initiated Corps research in the application of the social sciences to the design of military facilities and is now administering and coordinating the interests and expertise embodied in the program relative to many of the CERL responsibilities.

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Robert Shibley

ROBERT SHIBLEY, formerly Projects Officer, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Corps of Engineers, responsible for research problem statements and research coordination. He has an M.Arch., Catholic University of America.