Wow . . . It's summer! Well, not really. Actually it's before Memorial Day, but by the time you read this the days will be at their longest, the parks will be packed and most schools will be out for summer . . . Which leads us into this month's cover topic: School and Campus Design.

With the break in academic activities, staff members often work over the summer to resolve administrative issues like repair and growth, so we put together a few exceptional examples of recent design works that have helped transform campuses across the nation.

In looking for the articles in this year's edition we first tried to pick a broad range of age-related design. Not sure if I said that correctly, but a campus for Pre-K is completely different from a campus for postgrads.

At the younger levels, campus design is all about sensory and social development. What I remember from my elementary days were white lines on black tops and steel poles holding up swings, rings and bars. Anywhere you might be able to fall more than three feet they covered in grass; anywhere the grass couldn't hold up to the wear, they threw down some sand . . .