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Environmental Design Xi an University of Architecture and Technology，Xi an，China Han Yi 1. Harmony with the Living Earth By John Ormsbee Simonds We are the victims of our own building. We are trapped, body and soul, in the mechanistic surroundings we have constructed about ourselves. Somewhere in the complex process of evolving our living spaces, cities, and roadways, we have become so absorbed in the power of machines, so absorbed in the pursuit of new techniques of building, so absorbed with new materials the we have neglected our human needs. Our own deepest instincts are violated. Our b