Humans need shelter as much as they need food, sleep, and other essentials. If you've ever been disappointed with the installation of a new housing development or the dreaded luxury high rise, you might have asked yourself: do human dwellings have to be so ugly and obtrusive? If you want to live in the blissful solitude of nature, there's something, well, unnatural about plunking a house down in the middle of untouched land. So what can you do? Luckily, there are clever designers and architects everywhere who work to reconcile the human need for shelter with respect for natural settings...