Koen Steemers is a director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies and a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He specialises in aspects of environmental design in architecture, has practices as an architect in the UK and Germany, and is a Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Limited. His recent publications include Energy and Environment in Architecture (2000), and Architecture City Environment (2000), The Selective Environment (2002), Daylight Design of Buildings (2002).Mary Ann Steane is a lecturer in the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. She lectures on environmental issues and is also a course director of the MPhil in Environmental Design. In the studio courses she delivers the acknowledgement and integration of environmental design issues is always given particular emphasis. Her research marries technical analysis with a more historical perspective. The current focus of her research is on natural lighting strategies, and seeks to enable more precise communication about light quality, and thus to develop a more nuanced appraisal of natural lighting strategies in their broader topographic, climatic and programmatic context.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Environmental Diversity in Architecture Part 2 Framework 2. Social, Architectural and Environmental Convergence 3. The Ambiguity of Intentions 4. Human Nature 5. Designing Diverse Lifetimes for Evolving Buildings Part 3: Urban 6. Urban Diversity 7. Outdoor Comfort 8. Intermediate Environments 9. The Reverential Acoustic Part 4: Interior 10. Environmental Diversity and Natural Lighting Strategies 11. Daylight Perception 12. Exploring Thermal Comfort and Spatial Diversity Part 5: Design 13. Experiencing Climate: Architecture and Environmental Diversity