This article explores the shared principles and ideas between Simon Guy and Graham Farmer’s “Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: The Place for Technology” and James J. Kay, Nina-Marie E. Lister and David Waltner-Toews’s The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability. It explores what it means to be a practicing architect and planner in modern society through the synthesis of these two perspectives. Honing in on the concept of sustainable architecture and design, we can begin to view our goal as a complex system. Within this complex system of sustainability, we can productively and creatively find new ways to design our built environment without making harmful or irreversible mistakes.http://deepblue.li...