ABSTRACT
Pointing out the network of relationships surrounding how humans and their homes and habitats are related seems somewhat preposterous – it would seem to be readily apparent, too. Some of the combinations of architecture and materials that were considered the inevitable progress managed to create structures that produced the "sick building syndrome" in their inhabitants. Design for sustainability requires seriously different approaches from ordinary architecture, among other things such that go beyond mere compliance with what law dictates and the designer or customer deems to be en vogue. Individual buildings ate somewhat more easily shaped by individual people's decisions or, for example, the setting of preferable examples which shape expectations and may contribute to improvements. Community, human settlement, and landscape development, like classical architectural design, would need to be informed by a new mindset oriented primarily on the question of their sustainability, with sociocultural concerns playing a high role but needing to be considered in conjunction.
