ABSTRACT
The use of the term ‘environmental control’ is rife in the literature associated with the design and technology of buildings. The use of such terminology is more akin to the engineers’ attempt to describe mechanical and electrical systems for providing some form of environmental comfort. From a design philosophy standpoint, successful design should work with the environment and not against it. To quote Rachel Carson after Wines (2000), ‘The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born in the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of Man’.
