In Buildings are for People – Human Ecological Design, Bill Caplan issues a clarion call for the design/build professions to expand their concept of sustainable design to be more inclusive of the social, as well as the physical, environment. Doing so, Caplan delivers what might be regarded by some as being nothing less than a manifesto urging architects to do a better job of interlinking people with ecosystems, at what he calls the “human ecological interface”. Buildings, we are reminded, are much more than physical edifices that are constructed在《建筑是为了人——人类生态设计》一书中，比尔·卡普兰（Bill Caplan）发出了一个号角，呼吁设计/建筑专业人士将可持续设计的概念扩展到更包容社会和自然环境。这样做，卡普兰发表了一份宣言，敦促建筑师在他所谓的“人类-生态界面”上，更好地把人与生态系统联系起来。我们被提醒，建筑物不仅仅是建造的实体大厦