The functional design of buildings for electrical education

ALL TOO OFTEN the procedure in connection with the construction of a new electrical building on a college campus includes a point at which the architects present to the electrical engineering department a set of preliminary plans of the proposed building. This is a critical time since at this instant the electrical engineers are being given their first major opportunity to see and discuss the internal arrangements with which they are going to have to live for many years, yet at the same time the architects´ ideas of exterior and general building layout have been rather definitely settled. Thereafter, any point at which the electrical engineer´s ideas of interior arrangement differ from the architects´ ideas of exterior arrangement may lead to a clash, often settled in favor of the architects. Unlike the doctors, the architects cannot bury their mistakes, but neither do they have to live with them!