Just read an interesting article by Simos Yannas on environmentally responsive architecture. It is from the 20th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture held in Santiago CHILE, 9 - 12 November 2003.
Yannas suggests an environmentally-responsive architecture is not a fixed ideal, but an evolving concept to be redefined with project. He believes education should take a driving role in this evolution and that we need to move beyond the technical fixes perpetrated by current practice and start extending the architectural vocabulary towards expressing the temporality of natural and operational cycles in more diverse and creative ways.