In reply to maggie:

I.M. Pei designed a new museum that just opened recently in China, in a city an hour away from Shanghai-that city is known as a garden city for centuries. I think looking to the past-like hundreds of years ago would give you some clue to the future. Architectures in the past always looked for design in harmony with nature, and for the recent 60 years we were loosing that tradition, now with the green consciousness, I think it's going to come back big time, in a differnt way-as far as building materials and conserving energy. There are lots of articles now in newspaper regarding new processed materials for buildings, and ways to cut waste. These things definitely would influence the designs of the buildings.