Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture.　 It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced environmental and cultural conditions as reciprocal and complementary. 　A basic premise of this book's arguments is that cultural patterns cannot be adequately conceptualized in the terms that typically define ecology today.　 Instead, studies based on the natural sciences must be complemented by descriptions and interpretations of historical narratives, cultural norms, and individual...