The unbearable lightness of expertness or space creation in the “climate change” era: A theoretical extension of the “constructal law” for building and urban design

The Relationship between the Use of Building Performance Simulation Tools by Recent Graduate Architects and the Deficiencies in Architectural Education

“…The attention paid to climate change will lead to increased interest in the coming years, so universities must engage in the development of more specialized curricula [29][30][31]. There is an urgent need to create multidisciplinary teams in building decision-making that understand the impact of climate on cities [32]. The first postgraduate study that focused on this in Europe was in 2014 at Cracow University of Technology in collaboration with the Polish Green Building Council [33].…”

Constructal Macroscale Thermodynamic Model of Spherical Urban Greenhouse Form with Double Thermal Envelope within Heat Currents

“…As a consequence, a variety of economic-environmental multifaceted reforms are applied in an international level so as to "experiment with urban and peri-urban economic bases which make the city the center of transition towards a 'low carbon' economy" [1]. Since the early 1970s, the first petrol crisis of 1973, architecture-and the building sector in general-became a target of environmental reform [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. This reform resulted in segregating disciplines and creating antagonist relations.…”

“…The impossibility of establishing throughout architectural design a new universe of sustainable forms and programs remains on the fact that a rigid distinction between method and content regarding this discipline cannot be created due to the impossibility of making connections between the artistic and the scientific dimension of architecture on the perspective of an innovative programmatic vision [3][4][5][6][7].…”

Coupling architectural synthesis to applied thermal engineering, constructal thermodynamics and fractal analysis: An original pedagogic method to incorporate “sustainability” into architectural education during the initial conceptual stages

“…As it has been analyzed in the past, this production, which builds its own values, and simultaneously questions their necessity, is not yet able to aesthetically and culturally respond to the growing need to compose an original landscape of symbolic values by producing a new "radical imaginary" as it is defined by Castoriadis [4][5][6][7][8]. In previous research [9] it was demonstrated that starting from Maria Kaika's research findings and employing the vocabulary and the philosophical theory of Castoriadis, we could assume that the emblematic architecture, which constitutes an "urban totem", may give form and substance to this real social need for climate change mitigation purposes. However according to James Wines "much of the ecologically motivated work today, acclaimed as green or contextual, is nothing more than a catalogue of environmental technology and land conservation systems tacked onto otherwise conventional buildings and landscapes" [10: p 53].…”