Designed by Antoine Predock, completed 1996 Palo Alto, California The Center for Integrated Systems Extension Building (CISX, 1993–96) at Stanford University is an academic research and educational facility designed by Antoine Predock (1936–). The design is the result not only of a highly skilled architect’s efforts but also of 50 years of successful educational initiatives and over a decade of thoughtful university planning. Established in 1888, Stanford University undertook a Centennial Campaign funding drive during President Kennedy’s term (1980–92) that resulted in raising $1.26 billion, at the time the largest amount in the history of American higher education. This success was due in large part to the university’s close ties with regional electronics and computer industries of Silicon Valley that sparked much of the economic growth of the last decade of the 20th century. Coinciding with this success was the development and adoption of The Plan for t he Second Century in 1991, pre...