Got Yurt?

While reading this recent article on “War Shelters” in the NYTimes, I was surprised to find that no mention was made of the yurt design behind the architecture of these corrugated metal houses. Architectural Forum called the houses a “dressed-up adaptation of the lowly grain bin” but to me (and maybe it’s because I lived in a yurt myself) the template for their design seems to be the circular, compact shape of a yurt. Doesn’t that look like a yurt to you?