Title & Author:

Dwelling, seeing, and designing : toward a phenomenological ecology / edited by David Seamon.

Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

Description:

xviii, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

SUNY series in environmental and architectural phenomenology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Dwelling, seeing, and designing : an introduction / David Seamon ---- Part I. Modernity and the built environment: problems and possibilities. 2. Modernity and the reclamation of place / Edward Relph --- 3. Thoughts on a non-arbitrary architecture / Karsten Harries --- 4. "If the doors of perception were cleansed" : toward an experiential aesthetics for the designed landscape / Catherine Howett ---- Part II. Interpreting architecture and landscape. 5. The first roof : interpreting a spatial pattern / Murray Silverstein --- 6. Toward an architectural vocabulary : the porch as a between / Robert Mugerauer --- 7. A lesson in continuity : the legacy of the builders' guild in Northern Greece / Ronald Walkey --- 8. Toward a phenomenology of landscape and landscape experience : an example from Catalonia / Joan Nogue i Font --- 9. Toward a holistic understanding of place : reading a landscape through its flora and fauna / Mark Reigner ---- Part III. Living, understanding, and designing. 10. Different worlds coming together : a phenomenology of relationship as portrayed in Doris Lessing's Diaries of Jane Somers / David Seamon --- 11. Putting geometry in its place : toward a phenomenology of the design process / Kimberly Dovey --- 12. Sacred structures and everyday life : a return to Manteo, North Carolina / Randolph T. Hester, Jr. --- 13. Designing for a commitment to place : lessons from the alternative community Findhorn / Clare Cooper Marcus --- 14. Promoting a foundational ecology practically through Christopher Alexander's pattern language : the example of Meadowcreek / Gary J. Coates and David Seamon.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This volume focuses on the question of how people might see and understand the natural and built environments in a deeper, more perceptive way. Why are places important to people, and can designers and policy-makers create better places? Contributors include architects, philosophers and architects.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

(acid-free)
0791402776
(pbk. ; acids-free)
0791402784
0791412784
9780791412787
0791412776
9780791412770
9024732824
9789024732821

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Phenomenology.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Phénoménologie.
phenomenology.
Architektur
Humanökologie
Phänomenologie
Soziologie
Umwelt
Wohnen
Aufsatzsammlung
biologie
biology
milieu
environment
sociale ecologie
human ecology
mens
man
fenologie
phenology
fenomenologie
Landscape Ecology
Landschapsecologie

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Seamon, David.
SUNY series in environmental and architectural phenomenology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87536
Call No.: ID:93-B2126
Status: Available