 He also deploys arguments from hermeneutics to explain design as a process of interpretation.Along with Richard Coyne, he extends the argument to the nature of architectural education and design.Environmental hermeneutics applies hermeneutics to environmental issues conceived broadly to subjects including "nature" and "wilderness" (both terms are matters of hermeneutical contention), landscapes, ecosystems, built environments (where it overlaps architectural hermeneutics ), inter-species relationships, the relationship of the body to the world, and more.