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Joseph S. Keelty Jr., 93, a retired home builder who developed Baltimore County's Rodgers Forge and Mays Chapel Village and was recalled as a quiet but generous but donor to local schools and charities, died of heart disease Sunday at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
Skyscrapers, generally considered as large energy and resource consumers, can be designed for ecological amelioration, as seen in Kenneth Yeang's work.
“The thing that Jack Greenland did was to explain very complex ideas of the qualities of the internal spaces of the buildings through diagrams, through basic principles. They are comprehensible to architects to help them make better buildings. I know that attention at the moment is to external form-making – if you go to glamour websites, you ll see hundreds of pictures of the outside of buildings and very, very few of the inside. But the whole reason for architecture is actually the inside of the buildings, which is where architectural science happens,” Wheeler observes.