The threshold between a building's aesthetics and its physics is rarely abrupt.  It is not only a wise use of resources to have the sun warm you in the winter and be shielded from it in the summer, to employ a breeze to assist in a building's ventilation, or to use familiar or local materials, it feels good. Our buildings have always been extremely frugal with the energy that they consume, careful about the materials they are made of, and responsible in the manner of their construction, not because the 'green-ness' of a building has become a compelling contemporary pursuit, but because a building's relationship to its climate, culture, the lives and rituals of its inhabitants has always lead us there. Architecture not only delights the sense of sight, it engages the entire range of senses and values of its inhabitants.