ABSTRACT
The new architecture that emerged from the end of the twentieth century was again freeing itself from stale rules of form generation. By embracing new technology associated with energy, power, construction and movement, and adapting it to architecture through building integration, architects of the nineteenth century were genuinely modern in their approach. By creating associations with geometric patterns in Islamic art and architecture, a cultural layer is added to a functional and beautiful design. The term modern architecture is most commonly used synonymously with a style called twentieth-century Modernism. In the process of transformation from an “old” to a “new” architecture, the basement, a foundation stone of the nineteenth-century approach to comfort systems engineering, was lost. At the Hilton Foundation, a series of downdraught air supply towers work in tandem with operable clerestory windows at the top of the atrium, forming a buoyancy-driven natural ventilation system.
