ABSTRACT
Despite the occasional rhetoric about ecological interdependency, the response by environmental designers, architects and builders to the ecological crisis has been, on the whole, superficial. Dysfunctional human society–nature relationships remain largely unchallenged in built environment design. Eco-logical design should be as fundamental to building as structural logic is to engineering; however, this is not yet the case. Eco-logical design can be viewed as an ethic and method for achieving social transformation.
