ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two additional specific objectives the environmental lessons evident in Neutra's architecture in reference to Watsuji's philosophy. The ecology of we' and ambient warmth distances from any romantic position of the natural such as that of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra sees the natural as imbalanced, if not imperfect. Human intervention is thus expects. This intervention is not for the sake of the anthropocentric and instrumental appropriation of nature and its resources, but rather intended for the restoration of balance between the different forces or qualities of the natural, articulating their right relationship peculiar to the character of a human abode. In reference to this human intervention is Neutra's sense of ecology. It is true that establishing the right relationship among natural conditions is an essential aspect of his ecological perspective. His sense of ecology, however, became further joined with the ethical dimension of the inter-personal that a human abode necessarily suggests.
