ABSTRACT
Discussion can obviously leap much further and faster than practice, which has the inertia of the status quo to contend with. This chapter, therefore, is not about what might be, but about what is developing on the ground in terms of the criteria for engaging with environmental design. A large-scale competition entry by Richard Horden, to which I contributed, demonstrates a level of symbiosis between built and natural environments within a modified modernist framework. This modernist framework makes assumptions about what is environmentally permissible that are problematic to others trying to achieve a greater degree of symbiosis.
