Prof. David Seamon
Biography
David Seamon is a Professor of Architecture at Kansas State
University.
Trained as a geographer and environment-behavior
researcher, he is interested in phenomenological approaches to
architecture, place, and environmental experience.
He has written
A Geography of the Lifeworld (1979) and has edited Dwelling,
Place and Environment: Toward a Phenomenology of Person and World
(1985); Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a
Phenomenological Ecology (1993); and Goethe’s Way of
Science: A Phenomenology of Nature (1998).
He is editor of
the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter;
and, for the State University of New York Press, editor of the
monograph series, „Environmental and Architectural
Phenomenology.
Publications
Books
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1998 Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of
Nature, edited with Arthur Zajonc. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press.
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1993 Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a
Phenomenological Ecology, editor. Albany, New York:
State University of New York Press.
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1989 Dwelling, Place and Environment: Toward a
Phenomenology of Person and World,
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1985 edited with Robert
Mugerauer. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985;
reprinted in soft cover by Columbia University Press, New
York, 1989.
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1980 The Human Experience of Space and Place,
edited with Anne Buttimer. London: Croom Helm.
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1979 A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement,
Rest and Encounter. New
York: St. Martin's Press.
Book series: Editorship
- SUNY Press Series in Environmental and
Architectural Phenomenology, Albany, NY:
- 98 State University of New York Press [a monograph
series of authored and edited volumes that incorporate
qualitative, descriptive approaches to architectural and
environmental experience].
ARTICLES (since 1991)
- 1998 Goethe, Nature, and Phenomenology: An
Introduction, in Goethe's Way of Science: A
Phenomenology of Nature [see books above].
- 1997 Environment [Phenomenology and], in
Encyclopedia
of Phenomenology, Lester Embree et al., eds.
(Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers) [an international
encyclopedia on the history and practice of
phenomenology; includes entries by some 100
contributors--all key figures in phenomenological
research].
- 1994 The Life of the Place: A Phenomenological
Commentary on Bill Hillier's Theory of Space Syntax, Nordisk
Arkitekturforskning [Nordic Journal of
Architectural Research], 7, 1: 35-48.
- 1994 A Thiis-Evensen Interpretation of Two Churches by
Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright (co-authored with
Yuan Lin), in R. M. Feldman, G. Hardie, and D. G. Saile,
eds., Power by Design: EDRA Proceedings 24,
Oklahoma City: Environmental Design Research Association,
pp. 130-142.
- 1993 Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: An Introduction,
in Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a
Phenomenological Ecology, pp. 1-21, [see books
above].
- 1993 Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically
Through Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language: The
Example of Meadowcreek (co-authored with Gary J. Coates),
in Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a
Phenomenological Ecology, pp. 331-55, [see books
above].
- 1993 Different Worlds Coming Together: A Phenomenology
of Relationship as Portrayed in Doris Lessing's Diaries
of Jane Somers, in Dwelling, Seeing and Designing:
Toward a Phenomenological Ecology, pp. 219-46, [see
books above].
- 1992 A Diary Interpretation of Place: Artist Frederic
Church's Olana, in Geographical Snapshots of
North America, edited by Donald G. Janelle. New York:
Guilford Press, pp. 78-82 [a collection of 93 essays
commemorating the 27th Congress of the International
Geographical Union and Assembly in Washington, D. C.,
August].
- 1991 Toward a Phenomenology of Citiness: Kevin Lynch's
Image of the City and Beyond, National
Geographical Journal of India, 37
(March-June): 178-188.
- Toward a Phenomenology of the Architectural Lifeworld,
in Architecture: Back..to...Life (Proceedings of
the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture), edited by John Hancock &
William Miller. Wash., D. C.: ACSA Press, pp. 3-7.
Publications
in "Wolkenkuckucksheim
–
Cloud-Cuckoo-Land
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Vozdushnyi zamok":
triad@ksu.edu