The educational buildings in Giles County have been progressively approaching a state of inadequacy for the growing County School population. Superintendent R.K. Johnson and the School Board of Giles County foresaw in 1950 the coming fate of the school situation and made a formal request to the State Superintendent of Public Institutions to make a study of the school buildings of the County and to prepare a report findings and recommendations. From the report, by the Committee of Investigation, information was obtained which introduced a program of one consolidated high school for the entire County high school population. The School Board however, proposed to develop three high school buildings instead of one recommended consolidated high school. Of the three high schools, the Pearisburg High School is the subject of this thesis. It is an actual problem that exists and which has validity. Mr. P.E. Ahalt, Superintendent of the Giles County School Board, has in his office a solution to each proposed building prepared by Smithey and Boynton, Architects, Roanoke, Virginia. It is the purpose of the author of this to render his own solution to the problem for comparison with the existing conception. The subject matter is presented in an effort to prepare the mind of the reader for the final development of the architectural solution to an educational building. The end result of the thesis is to investigate the conditions and recommendations for school building in Giles County and from the available information, design a school that will fulfill the prepared requirements. / Master of Science