With no electricity when it was built, architects relied on large windows to allow for maximum light, and now, this is what is most striking about the tile-walled lab, refurbished to the way it would have looked at the turn of last century and opened as a tourist attraction in 2009.
More to the point, can an architect rely on studies of these quantities, using computer calculations and measurements in scale models, to ensure that a structurally innovative, visually inspiring design for a new concert hall will be an acoustical triumph rather than a disaster?
In fact, MVRDV's architects rely so much on gathering and metabolizing data, information and competing points of view that they insist they leave no formal signature on their work.
In early design stages, system architects mostly rely on estimations to make design decisions.
With respect to the mitigation of catastrophes induced by panicking crowds (e.g. during an evacuation), city planners and architects increasingly rely on tools simulating crowd behaviors in order to optimize infrastructures.
They have relied on a local architect.
Usually, the one thing an architect can rely on is solid ground, but since it was still a working quarry there was a lot of movement.
To realize his ambition -- grandiose or not -- he has chosen, not one of the tried-and-true local architects developers customarily rely on, but Michael Graves, who has designed everything from offices for Disney to teakettles for Target.
Beyond landscape architects, homeowners can rely on arborists to remove that scraggly, half-dead maple, irrigation specialists to end the need to drag garden hoses back and forth across the lawn and masons to turn a muddy piece of lawn into their own little corner of the Piazza San Marco.
