Man’s Relationship to His Environment 
On such a basis, an experimental architecture might start 
with design for specific people in a specific environment. In 
the process of design, the images of environmental renewal should 
become suggestive of orders of rest and movement, of human 
“breathing” in the environment, of passages from exterior to 
interior space in landscapes, cities, quarters and houses. The 
environment should speak a “language”? of contact with 
natural facts, social interaction and a sensible interrelatedness 
of the natural and the artificial components of human environ- 
ment. Experimental architecture would have the pioneer 
function of forming both contemporary architect and archi- 
tecture, of accumulating experience and of inspiring people 
to interest and participation in environmental change. 
BEGINNINGS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RENEWAL 
The conviction has grown that the scale and scope of 
contemporary environmental needs render reliance on trial-and- 
error methods of development both immoral and dangerous, 
and that comprehensive planning for environmental recon- 
struction has become imperative. The first and greatest 
exponent of this movement was Sir Patrick Geddes. As a 
biologist, geologist, sociologist, geographer and planner he 
conceived the full human importance of environmental renewal 
and of the intensification of the man-environment relationship. 
In spite of great building activity and a vast increase in public 
and private planning organizations, the realization of these 
ideas in our own “‘second industrial revolution”’ stands in no 
proportion yet to the growing emergency, the technically and 
economically improved conditions for large-scale development 
operations and the knowledge gained in planning procedure. 
So much “development”? is going on that it seems important 
to point out those beginnings which are distinctly oriented on 
comprehensive human-environmental renewal. First, there is 
progress in the planning of new urban quarters. Ina number of 
countries the earlier monstrous uniformity of public housing 
is being gradually supplanted by the dual principle of “variety 
in unity and unity in variety’, both in the social housing 
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