The Buell Hypothesis examines the cultural assumptions underlying the "American Dream" in the context of the foreclosure crisis, suburban sprawl, and the architectural public sphere.
However, the numerical data obtained from the case studied, show that solar chimneys as natural ventilation systems offer quite a small efficiency and will remain within the sphere of architectural decisions.
An understanding of these differences has long influenced the use and design of structures in both architectural and mechanical design spheres.
This chapter builds on earlier work using genetic programming (GP) and a Lindenmayer system (L-system) representation within the sphere of generative architectural design.
It turned out that "eco"- attitude was so trendy that it gradually influenced different spheres of life, including the area of architectural design as well.
The enormous skyscraper, topped with a gigantic gold sphere, will never win architectural awards.
As is known to architectural designers, the typical geodesic network in the form of a sphere or half sphere, besides the aesthetical aspect, the length of all bars (or called struts, beams, edges) of the network are in groups of limited number, according to the frequency of the network, as shown in Table 1.
The Buell Center's research and programming articulate facts and frameworks that modify key assumptions governing the architectural public sphere that is, the arena in which informed public analysis and debate about architecture and urbanism takes place.
What is the architectural firm du jour -- lionized for the sphere-in-a-jewel-box Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History -- doing at a sewage plant on the banks of Newtown Creek?
When the Hayden's threadbare facilities were in need of a major refurbishing, the trustees of the Natural History Museum opted for a new architectural metaphor: One of the universe's own spheres, 2 million kilograms of it, housed inside the showcase-like, $210 million Rose Center.
