Thank you for that link, Lynn - I enjoyed it and learned from it re environment and sustainability. I also liked this:
"Architects belong to a profession that strives for increasing amounts of creative input, accompanied by, and resulting in more modelling, more engineering and perhaps more artificiality. From hand labour to horses and carts, via rudimentary mechanical equipment to bulldozers and trucks – has it become all too easy to snap our architectural fingers and command the earth? Have we lost sight of the beauty in simplicity? Are architects still capable of designing a good golf course that has minimal environmental impact and supports the principles and practices of sustainability?"
I'm not sure of the answers to those 3 questions. But I think that, as with film makers and doctors and government workers, when they get a new 'technology' in their hands, it is the rare gca who has the discipline NOT to use it.
Peter