The Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among constructed, social, and natural environments. The Network seeks to build an epistemic community that fosters linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a research network, it is defined by its scope and concerns and is motivated to develop strategies for action framed by its shared themes and tensions. The Network's themes define the intellectual framework for its conferences, journals, and books--serving as evolving points of dialogue across architecture, planning, landscape, and urban design. These themes reflect the Network's commitment to understanding the built environment as both a material and cultural construct--an ever-changing interface between human intention, ecological process, and social life.