CURRICULUM VITAE

David Seamon, PhD

 

Professor
Department of Architecture

Kansas State University

211 Seaton Hall

Manhattan
, Kansas 66506-2901

Tel: (785) 532‑5953   Fax: (785) 532-6722
triad@ksu.edu

www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon

Occupational Experience

1993-08       Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (promoted April, 1993); sabbatical leave, 1993-94 school year; received Professorial Performance Award, spring 2007

1987-93       Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (tenured and promoted April, 1987)

1988-89       Research Fellow, Design Advancement Program, National Endowment for the Arts, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York; Visiting Professor, Program in Community Design, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; academic leave of absence from Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

1988            Visiting Faculty, Master's Program in Environmental Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

1983‑87       Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University

1980‑83       Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of Architecture and Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

1980            Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Affairs, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

1978‑80       Post‑doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social and Economic Geography, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

1977‑78       Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania

1976‑77       Evening Instructor, Environmental Studies Program, American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts

1976            Part‑time Instructor, Special Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

1975‑77       Part‑time Instructor, Environmental Affairs, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

Education

B.A.   State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, 1970

Ph.D. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1977 (Geography; emphasis in behavioral geography and environment-behavior research)

Books

2001  Frederic Church’s Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art, main essay by James A. Ryan, with contributing essays by Franklin Kelly, David Seamon, & Karen Zukowski; David Seamon, general editor. Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press.

1998  Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature, edited with Arthur Zajonc. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

1993  Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a Phenomenol­ogical Ecology, editor. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.

1985  Dwelling,  Place  and Environment:  Toward  a  Phenomenology of  Person  and  World,

2000  edited with Robert Mugerauer. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985. Reprinted in soft cover by Columbia University Press, New York, 1989. Reprinted in hardcover with a new editors’ introduction, by Krieger Press, Malabar, Florida, 2000.

1984  Environmental Perception and Behavior: Inventory and Prospect, edited with Thomas Saarinen and James Sell. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Series, No. 209.

1980  The Human Experience of Space and Place, edited with Anne Buttimer. London: Croom Helm.

1979  A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Book Series

1992-08  SUNY Press Series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press [a monograph series of authored and edited volumes that incorporate qualitative, descriptive approaches to architectural and environmental experience]. Volumes in the series include:

·        Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology, edited by David Seamon (1993);

·        Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses, by Robert Mugerauer (1994);

·        In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory, by Louise Chawla (1994);

·        Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature, edited by David Seamon and Arthur Zajonc;

·        Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development, by  Ingrid Leman Stefanovic (2000);

·        Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Life of Its Teenagers, by Herb Childress (2000).

 Articles

2007  Karsten Harries’ Natural Symbols as a Means for Interpreting Architecture: Inside and Outside in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea, co-authored with Enku Mulugeta Assefa. In Wolkenkuckucksheim, [on-line architectural journal] vol. 12, no. 1 (August), pp. 1-7;
available at:

www.tu-cottbus.de/theo/Wolke/eng/Subjects/071/Seamon/seamon_assefa.htm.

2007  A Lived Hermetic of People and Place: Phenomenology and Space Syntax [keynote address], in A. Sema Kubat et al., eds., Proceedings, 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, vol. 1, pp. iii-1-16. Istanbul: ITU, Faculty of Architecture.

2006 Interconnections, Relationships, and Environmental Wholes: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds, in Daniel Martino (ed.), To Renew the Face of the Earth: Phenomenology and Ecology, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, forthcoming.

2006  A Geography of Lifeworld in Retrospect: A Response to Shaun Moores, Particip@tions, 3, 2 (November) [Particip@tions is an on-line peer-reviewed professional journal of media and communication studies; available at: www.participations.org/].

2005  Goethe’s Way of Science as a Phenomenology of Nature, Janus Head, 8 (1): 86-101 [Janus Head is a biannual journal of “interdisciplinary studies in literature, continental philosophy, phenomenological psychology and the arts”].

2004      Grasping the Dynamism of Urban Place: Contributions from the Work of Christopher Alexander, Bill Hillier, and Daniel Kemmis, in Tom Mels (ed.), Reanimating Places (pp. 123-45)Burlington, Vt: Ashgate.

2004  Revealing Environmental and Place Wholes: Lessons from Christopher Alexander’s Theory of Wholeness and Bill Hillier’s Space Syntax, Environmental Philosophy, 1 (1): 13-33.

2003  Connections that Have a Quality of Necessity: Goethe’s Way of Science as a Phenomenology of Nature, in Back to Earth, March, 4 (1): 3-11 [journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy].

2002  Physical Comminglings: Body, Habit, and Space Transformed into Place, in Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 22 (winter): 42S-51S.

2001  Olana after Frederic Church, co-written with Karen Zukowski, in Frederic Church’s Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art. (pp. 67-74). Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press.

2000  A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research. In S. Wapner, J. Demick, T. Yamamoto, and H Minami (Eds.), Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research (pp. 157-78).  New York: Plenum  [reprinted in  Turkish in Mimarlik Kulturu Dergisi [Magazine of Architectural Culture], 2 [spring-summer]: 36-60].

2000  Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling: The Contributions of Thomas Thiis-Evensen and Christopher Alexander, in Building and Dwelling [Bauen und Wohnen], edited by Eduard Führ. Munich, Germany: Waxmann Verlag GmbH; New York: Waxmann, 2000, pp. 189-202.

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), in press [an international encyclopedia on the history and practice of phenomenology; includes entries by some 100 contributors--all key figures in phenomenological research].

1996  To Open Feeling: Phenomenology, Emotional Experience, and Humane Habitats, Laboratorio di Geografia e Letteratura [Studies in Geography and Literature], 1 (1): 15-21.

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.

1991  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.

1990  Architecture, Experience, and Phenomenology: Toward Reconciling Order and Freedom, paper no. 1, Person-Environment Theory Series, edited by R. Ellis. Berkeley: Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California, Berkeley.

1990  Using Pattern Language to Identify Sense of Place: American Landscape Painter Frederic Church's Olana as a Test Case, in Coming of Age: Proceedings, EDRA, 1990, edited by R. Selby. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, pp. 171-179.

1990  Awareness and Reunion: A Phenomenology of the Person-Environment Relationship as Portrayed in the New York Photographs of André Kertész, in Place Images in the Media, edited by Leo Zonn. Totowa, New Jersey: Roman and Littlefield, pp. 87-107.

1989  Humanistic and Phenomenological Advances in Environmental Design: The Case of Genius Loci, The Humanistic Psychologist, 17 (Autumn): 280-293.

1988  Towards a Phenomenology of Environmental Meaning: The Example of Flowforms, The National Geographical Journal of India [special issue on Environmental Meaning and Aesthetics], 34 (March): 65-74.

1987  Phenomenology and the Clark Experience, Journal of Environmental Psychology [special issue on Clark University as a center of innovation for research in environment and behavior], 7 (December, 1987): 367-377.

1987  Phenomenology and Environment‑Behavior Research, in Gary T. Moore and

          Ervin Zube, eds., Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design, vol. 1. New York: Plenum, pp. 3-27.

1987  Phenomenology and Vernacular Lifeworlds, in David Saile, ed., Architecture in Cultural Change. Lawrence, Kansas: School of Architecture, University of Kansas,pp. 17‑24 [reprinted in The Trumpeter, 8, 4 (Fall 1991): 201-206].

1987  Christopher Alexander and the Nature of Architecture, Orion Nature Quarterly, 6, (Spring): 20‑33 (co-authored with Gary J. Coates and Susanne Siepl).

1985  Dwelling, Place and Environment: An Introduction, co‑authored with Robert Mugerauer, in David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer, eds., Dwelling, Place and Environment [see books above], pp. 1‑12.

1985  Reconciling Old and New Worlds: The Dwelling‑Journey Relationship as Portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg's “Emigrant” Novels, in David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer, eds., Dwelling, Place and Environment [see books above], pp. 227‑245.

1984  Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling and One Concrete Interpretation as Indicated by Hassan Fathy's Architecture for the Poor, Geosciences and Man, 24 (April): 43‑53.

1984  Emotional Experience of the Environment, American Behavioral Scientist, 27 (July/August): 757‑770.

1984  Phenomenologies of Place and Environment, Phenomenology and Pedagogy, 2: 130‑135.

1984  Toward a Phenomenology of Place and Place‑Making: Interpreting Landscape, Lifeworld and Aesthetics (co‑authored with Gary J. Coates), Oz, 6 (May): 6‑9.

1984  Philosophical Directions in Behavioral Geography with an Emphasis on the Phenomenological Contribution, in Environmental Perception and Behavior: Inventory and Prospect, co‑edited with Thomas Saarinen and James Sell. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Series, No. 209, pp. 167‑178.

1983  Creativity: Center and Horizon, in Anne Buttimer, ed., Creativity and Context (Lund, Sweden: Gleerup), pp. 54‑64. 

1983  A Soft‑Spoken Hero: The Phenomenological Contribution to Architectural Education, in N. Harm and J. Kudra, eds. Proceedings: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, West Central Regional Conference, 1982 (Norman: University of Oklahoma College of Environmental Design, 1983), pp. 128‑136.

1982  The Phenomenological Contribution to Environmental Psychology, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2 (June): 119‑140.

1982  Heidegger, Environment and Dwelling, Environment and Planning A, 14 (March): 419‑423.

1981  Newcomers, Existential Outsiders and Insiders: Their Portrayal in Two Books by Doris Lessing, in D.C.D. Pocock, ed., Humanistic Geography and Literature (London: Croom Helm), pp. 85‑100.

1980  Market Place as Place Ballet: A Swedish Example (co‑authored with Christina Nordin), Landscape 24 (October): 35‑41.

1980  Body Ballets, Time‑space Routines and Place Ballets, in The Human Experience of Space and Place [see books above], pp. 146‑65.

1980  Afterward: Community, Place and Environment, in The Human Experience of Space and Place [see books above], pp. 188‑96.

1979  Phenomenology, Geography and Geographic Education, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 3 (Autumn): 40‑50.

1978  Goethe's Approach to the Natural World: Implications for Environmental Theory and Education, in David Ley and Marwyn Samuels, eds., Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems (Chicago: Maaroufa Press), pp. 238‑50.

1976  Phenomenological Investigation of Imaginative Literature, in G.T. Moore and R.G. Golledge, eds., Environmental Knowing: Theories, Research, and Methods (Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchison and Ross) pp. 286‑90.

1976  Extending the Man‑Environment Relationship: Wordsworth and Goethe's Experience of the Natural World, Monadnock, 50: 38‑50.

1975  The Phenomenological Investigation of Lived‑Space, Monadnock, 49: 38‑45.

1972  Environmental Imagery: An Overview and Tentative Ordering, in W.J. Mitchell, ed., Environmental Design: Research and Practice (Los Angeles: School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles) pp. 7‑1‑1‑‑7‑1‑7.

 Book Reviews

2007  Review of Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture (NY: Rodopi, 2006). In Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environmentm 14, 3: 268-69.

2005  Review of Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order, vols. 2-4 (Berkeley: Center for Environmental Structure, 2003-04). In Traditional Building, October, pp. 186-88.

2004  Review of Douglas Rae, City: Urbanism and its End (New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2003). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 15 (3): 4-8

2004  Review of Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, & Barbara Winslow, Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design (Taunton, CT: Taunton Press, 2002). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 15 (1): 3-5. Reprinted in Period Homes, summer 2004, pp. 156-57.

2003  Review of Bill Hillier, Space is the Machine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 14 (3): 6-9.

2002  Review of Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order, vol. 1: The Phenomenon of Life (NY: Oxford Univ. Press). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 13 (1): 4-8 [reprinted in Traditional Building, February 2005, pp. 204-05].

2000  Review of Thiis-Evensen, Archetypes of Urbanism: A Method for the Esthetic Design of Cities (Oslo: Scandinavian Press, 1999). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 11, (3): 4-5.

1997  Review of Michael Southworth and Eran Ben-Joseph, Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1997). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 8, (2): 4-6.

1997  Review of Henri Bortoft, The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way of Science (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1996. In Parabola, 22, 3 (Fall): 90-91.

1996 Review of Mike Greenberg, The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods that Work (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 7, (1): 4-7.

1995  Review of National Park Service, North Atlantic Regional Office, Thomas Cole: Suitability/Feasibility Study (Boston: National Park Service, 1991). In The Public Historian, 13, (2): 89-91.

1995  Review of Malcolm Quantrill and Bruce Webb, eds., Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1993). In Ecumene, 1 (2): 109-111.

1995  Review of Christopher Alexander, A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art (New York: Oxford University Press). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 6, (1), 5-10.

1994  Review of Patrick McGreevy, Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). In Geographical Review, 42 (4): 479-81.

1994  Review of Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner, eds., Mapping American Culture (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992). In Journal of Historical Geography, 7 (2): 223-224.

1993  Review of Meryle Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Knopf, 1992). In Parabola, 18, (2), 92, 94.

1993  Review of Stephen C. Bourassa, The Aesthetics of Landscape (New York: Halsted Press, 1991). In Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 83, (3), 523-525.

1992  Review of Grant Hildebrand, The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991). In Great Plains Research, 2, (1), 131-34.

1990  Review of Thomas Thiis-Evensen, Archetypes in Architecture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). In Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 1 (Spring and Fall): 6-9, 9-12.

1988  Review of Christopher Alexander, A New Theory of Urban Design (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987). In Unis, 2: 19-38.

1987  Review of Michael H. Mitias, ed., Possibility of the Aesthetic Experience (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1986). In Architecture and Behavior, 3: 347-349.

1987  Review of Neil Evernden, The Alien Landscape (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985). In Landscape Journal, 6: 88‑90.

1987  Review of Jacquelin Burgess and John R. Gold, eds., Geography, the Media and Popular Culture (London: Croom Helm, 1985). In Environment and Behavior, 19: 260‑262.

1987  Review of Yi‑Fu Tuan, The Good Life (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986). In Professional Geographer, 39: 128‑129.

1984  Review of Erwin Straus, Man, Time and World (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1983). In Human Studies, 3/4: 397‑98.

1984  Review of Elizabeth Dodson Gray, Green Paradise Lost (Wellesley, MA: Roundtable Press). In Environmental Review, 8: 298‑299.

1983  Review of Barrie B. Greenbie, Spaces: Dimensions of the Human Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981). In Environment and Planning A, 14: 132‑133.

1983  Review of Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson, eds., A Search for Common Ground (New York: Methuen, 1982). In Professional Geographer, 35: 245‑246.

1983  Review of Edward Relph, Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography (London: Croom Helm, 1981). In Journal of Environmental Ethics, 5: 181‑183.

1983  Review of M.E. Harvey and B.P. Holly, eds., Themes in Geographical Thought (London: Croom Helm, 1981). In Environment and Behavior, 15: 151-153.

1982  Review of D.R. Stoddart, eds., Geography, Ideology and Social Concern (London: Basil Blackwell, 1981). In The Professional Geographer, 34: 238‑239.

1982  Review of Christian Norberg‑Schulz, Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1980). In Environment and Behavior, 14: 260‑264.

1982  Review of Oscar Newman, Community of Interest (New York: Doubleday, 1981) and C. Lesley Andrews, Tenants and Town Hall (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1979). In Architecture and Behavior, 2: 95‑98.

1981  Review of John R. Gold, Introduction to Behavioural Geography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). In Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1: 337‑340.

1980  Review of Urie Bronfenbrenner, The Ecology of Human Development (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979). In Human Ecology, 10: 171‑173.

1979  Review of Herbert Leff, Experience, Environment and Human Potentials (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). In Professional Geographer 31: 122‑123.

1977  Review of Anne Marie Pollowy, The Urban Nest (Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchison and Ross, 1977). In Environment and Planning A, 9: 1437‑1438.

1977  Review of Edward Relph, Place and Placelessness (London: Pion, 1976). In Environment and Planning A, 9: 961‑962.

 Introductions, Commentaries, & Design Reports

2005  Duquesne Conference on Phenomenology and Ecology, in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, 16 (2): 10-15.

2004  The Case for Urban Place Making, in Traditional Building, September/October 2004, pp. 194-99.

2000  Series Editor's Introduction, in Herb Childress, Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtiville in the Lives of Its Teenagers [vol. 6, SUNY series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, David Seamon, series editor], Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

2000  Series Editor's Introduction, in Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainability [vol. 5, SUNY series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, David Seamon, series editor], Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

1996  A Singular Impact: Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness, in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter, 7, 3: 5-8 [special issue on the 20th anniversary of Relph's book].

1994  Series Editor's Introduction, in Louise Chawla, In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory [vol. 3, SUNY series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, David Seamon, series editor], Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

1994  Series Editor's Introduction, in Robert Mugerauer, Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses [vol. 2, SUNY series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, David Seamon, series editor], Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

1993  “Seeing with New Eyes”: Phenomenology and the New Millennium,” in Voices on the Threshold of Tomorrow, Georg Feuerstein and Trisha Lamb Feurstein, eds., Wheaton, Illinois: Quest, pp. 84-87. Reprinted in The Scientific and Medical Network Newsletter, 53 (December): 11-13.

1992  Presenting Sense of Place to the Public: Planning an Introductory Multi-Media Exhibit for American Landscape Painter Frederic Church's Olana, Final Report, National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program, March (Grant No. 91-4216-0038).

1991  Humanistic Geography, in Modern Geography: An Encyclopedic Survey, Gary S. Dunbar, ed., New York: Garland Publishing (vol. 1197 in Garland Reference Library of Humanities), pp. 81-82.

1989  Recommendations for a Visitors' Center at Frederic Church's Olana Based on Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language, Final Report, National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program, January (Grant No. 87-4216-0152).

1989  Phenomenology & Pedagogy: A “Repository for the Romantic and Nostalgic”? Phenomenology & Pedagogy, 7: 257-260.

1984  Design Plans for Meadowcreek: Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically through Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language (co‑authored with Gary Coates and upper‑level design students at Kansas State University), in Meadowcreek Notes, 7: (Fox, Arkansas: Meadowcreek Project), pp. 2‑10.

1984  The Question of Reliable Knowledge: The Irony and Tragedy of Positivist Research, Professional Geographer, 36: 216‑218.

1983  Response to Sixsmith's Comments on the “Phenomenological Contribution...,” Journal of Environmental Psychology, 3: 199‑201.

1980  Concretising Phenomenology: A Response to Aitchison, in Journal of Geography and Higher Education, 4: 89‑92.

1978  Landscape and Literature: A Response to Thrift, in Environmental and Planning A, 10: 729‑30.

Exhibit Writing

2000  Thomas Cole and Cedar Grove [panel texts for a permanent visitors’ exhibit at the Catskill, NY home of 19th-century landscape artist Thomas Cole; wrote the text and selected visual images for the exhibit, a series of ten 5 x 7-foot panels].

2000  Historic Catskill Point: Between River and Mountains [panel texts for a permanent visitors’ exhibit at the Freightmaster House, Historic Catskill Point, Catskill, New York].

1992  Landscape Artist Frederic Church's Olana [panel texts for the permanent visitors' exhibit at Olana, New York State Historic Site], co-authored with James A. Ryan, Site Manager, Olana Historic Site, Hudson, NY. 

Conference Presentations

 

2007  Where is Belonging When Places Change? Connecting or Not in American Filmmaker John Sayles’ Sunshine State, blind peer-review paper presented at the annual meetings of IAEP (International Association for Environmental Philosophy), 12 November.

2007  “The Hazard of Emergence: A Critique of Christopher Alexander’s Theory of Wholeness,” blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the annual meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Resarch Association), Sacramento, June 1.

2006  “Clarifying and Evaluating Architect Christopher Alexander’s Theory of Wholeness,” blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the annual meetings of IAEP (International Association for Environmental Philosophy), 16 October.

2006  “The Lived Reciprocity between Houses and Inhabitants as Portrayed in Two Short Stories by American Writer Louis Bromfield,” blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the annual meetings of the annual International Human Science Research conference, John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California, 4 August.

2006  “Facilitating Attachment to Place and Nature: The Experience of ‘Teched’ as Portrayed by American Novelist and Agrarian Reformer Louis Bromfield,” blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference, State University of New York College at Oneonta, NY, 6 June.

2005  “Place, Appropriation, and Belonging: American Writer Louis Bromfield’s ‘Teched’ as a Means for Understanding the Lived Experience of Place,” blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the annual meetings of IAEP (International Association for Environmental Philosophy), Salt Lake City, 23 October.

2005  Place, Appropriation, and Belonging: American Writer Louis Bromfield’s “Teched” as a Means for Understanding the Lived Experience of Place, blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the annual meetings of IAEP (International Association for Environmental Philosophy), Salt Lake City, 23 October.

2005  “A Strange Current of Sympathy and Knowledge”: The Notion of “Teched” as Portrayed in Three Short Stories by Louis Bromfield, blind peer-reviewed  paper presented at the annual meetings of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), Eugene, Oregon, 21 June.

2004  Goethean Science as a Phenomenology of Nature, peer-reviewed paper presented at a special session on “Goethe’s Way of Science, organized by Brent Dean Robbins, International Human Science Research Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 6 August.

2003  Revealing Environmental Wholes: Lessons from Christopher Alexander’s Theory of Wholeness &Bill Hillier’s Space Syntax, blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Chicago, November.

2000  Goethe's Way of Science as a Means of Teaching Phenomenological Method, blind peer-reviewed paper presented at the International Human Science Research Conference, June 13, Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, Long Island, New York.

1997  Toward a Phenomenology of Sacred Architecture: Natural Symbols and Architectural Archetypes as Illustrated in LeCorbusier's Ronchamp Chapel, co-authored with Yuan Lin, “Making Sacred Places” conference, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati, October.

1996  Thomas Thiis-Evensen's Phenomenology of Architectural Archetypes: The South Wall of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp Chapel as an Example, paper prsented at the annual meetings of SPHS (Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences), Washington, DC, October.

1995  Toward a Phenomenology of Environmental and Architectural Wholeness: Christopher Alexander's Contribution, paper presented at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Boston, March.

1995  Goethe's Prism Experiments as Phenomenological Seeing, paper presented at the national *meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Boston, March.

1994  To Open Feeling: Emotional Experience, Environmental Design, and Humane Habitats, paper presented at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), San Antonio, March.

1993  A Thiis-Evensen Interpretation of Two 20th-Century Churches: Le Corbusier's Ronchamp Chapel and Frank Lloyd Wright's Unitarian Church (co-presented with Yuan Lin) at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Chicago, April.

1992  The Inhabiting Body: Environment, Design, and a Phenomenology of Embodiment, paper presented at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), University of Colorado, Boulder, April.

1991  Toward a Phenomenology of the Architectural Lifeworld, paper presented at the national meetings of ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), Wash., D. C., April.

1990  American Landscape Artists Frederic Edwin Church's Olana: Creating Harmonious Place Through Landscape Design, invited paper presented at the international conference, “The Artist's Home,” University of Paris, October [co-presented with James Ryan, Director, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York].

1990  Using Pattern Language to Identify Sense of Place: American Landscape Painter Frederic Church's Olana as a Test Case, paper presented at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April.

1989  Phenomenology: A New Paradigm in Environment-Behavior-Design Research?, paper presented at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Black Mountain, North Carolina, April.

1989  Phenomenology and the Urban Landscape, paper presented at the national meetings of AAG (Associa­tion of American Geographers), Baltimore, March.

1988  Awareness and Reunion: A Phenomenology of the Person-World Relationship as Portrayed in the New York Photographs of André Kertész, paper presented at the national meetings of SPHS (Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences), Toronto, May.

1987  André Kertész's Photographs of New York: Lessons for Environment‑Behavior Research and Urban Design, paper presented at the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Ottawa, June.

1987  Phenomenology, Design, and Environment‑Behavior Research, paper presented at the International Human Science Research Conference, University of Ottawa, May.

1986  Phenomenological Insights from the New York Photographs of André Kertész, paper presented at the second Built Form and Culture Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, November.

1986  New Approaches to Environment‑Behavior Research: The Case of Phenomenology, invited paper presented for a special session on conceptual approaches in environment‑behavior research, organized by Gary Moore, national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Atlanta, April.

1986  A Phenomenology of Environmental and Architectural Meaning, invited paper prepared for a special session, “Meaning in the Built Environment,” national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, April.

1985  Approaches to Architectural Meaning with an Emphasis on the Phenomenological Contribution, paper presented at the West‑Central regional meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, October.

1985  Towards a Phenomenology of the City: Theory and Design, paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, October.

1985  A Phenomenological Approach to Urban Imagery and Experience, invited paper for a special session, “Urban Images,” in honor of Kevin Lynch, national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Detroit, Michigan, April.

1984  Experiential Approaches to Vernacular Architecture and Lifeworld, invited keynote address given at an international, interdisciplinary forum, “Built Form and Environment,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, October.

1984  Phenomenology, Environmental Ethics, and the Built Environment: the Meadowcreek Example, invited paper for a special session, “Phenomenology and Environmental Ethics,” national meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Human Behavior, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October.

1983  Phenomenologies of Environment and Place: An Important Component of Research in Human Science, paper presented at the annual Human Science Research Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May.

1983  Phenomenology as a Research Method in Human Geography and Environmental Psychology, invited paper for a special session, “Research Methods in Behavioral Geography,” at the national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April.

1982  A Soft‑Spoken Hero: The Phenomenological Contribution to Architectural Education, paper presented at the West‑Central regional meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, October.

1982  Phenomenologies of Place and Environment, paper prepared for a special session, “Phenomenologies of Place and Environment,” held at the national meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, October.

1982  Habit, Ritual and Place, invited paper presented at the R.J. Russell symposium, “Experience, Symbol and Place,” organized by the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, April.

1982  Philosophical Directions in Behavioral Geography, paper presented at the national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, Texas, April.

1981  Place as a Reconciler of the Person‑World Relationship, paper presented at the national meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October.

1981  Toward a Phenomenology of Dwelling and Building: Hassan Fathy's Architecture for the Poor as an Indication, paper presented at the national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, April.

1981  Phenomenological Contributions to Behavioral Geography, invited paper presented at the national meetings of the Institute of British Geographers, Leicester, England, January.

1980  Geography as a Science of the Lifeworld, invited paper presented at the national meetings of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Ottawa, Canada, November.

1980  Exploring Place, Neighborhood and Community Phenomenologically, paper presented at the national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Louisville, Kentucky, April.

1980  The Dwelling‑Journey Relationship: Its Portrayal in Moberg's 'Emigrant' Novels, invited paper presented at the national meetings of the Institute of British Geographers, Lancaster, England, January.

1979  Body and Place Choreographies, paper presented at the national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April.

1979  Geography and Imaginative Literature, invited paper presented at the national meetings of the Institute of British Geographers, Manchester, England, January.

1978  Goethe's Delicate Empiricism: Its Use in the Qualitative Description of Human Experience, invited paper presented at the national meetings of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August.

1976  Phenomenology and Behavioral Geography, invited paper presented at the Colloquium Series of the Department of Environmental Psychology, City University, New York, May.

1975  Wordsworth and Goethe's Experience of the Natural World: Implications for Environmental Education, paper presented at the symposium‑fair, “Children, Nature and Urban Environment,” sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., May. 

Invited Presentations & Keynote Lectures

2007  A Lived Hermetic of People and Place: Phenomenology and Space Syntax, keynote address, 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, Instanbul Technical University, Istanbul, 14 June.

2007  The Science of Space, the Art of Place, two invited lectures, School of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 18 June.

2005  Interconnections, Relationships, and Environmental Wholes: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds, Keynote address delivered at the symposium, “Renew the Face of the Earth: Phenomenology and Ecology,” organized by the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa., 12 March.

2003  Qualitative Methods in Architectural and Environmental Research, two invited lectures delivered to doctoral students in the PhD Program in Environmental and Community Design, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, October 16 & 17

2003  Place & Place Making in the City: The Urban Research of Christopher Alexander & Bill Hillier—Opportunities, Benefits, Challenges, invited public lecture for the School of Architecture and Environmental Design, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, October 16.

2002  Body-Subject, Habit, Place and Architecture, public lecture presented to the “Soundings” seminar, School of Architecture, Washington University, spring; seminar organized by architect Juhani Pallasmaa.

2002  Connections that Have a Quality of Necessity: Goethe’s Way of Science as a Phenomenology of Nature, keynote address, for the annual conference of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Chicago, October.

2001  Body, Habits, and Place: Toward a Phenomenology of the Habitual Strata of Human Experience, keynote address for the research conference, “Understanding Habits in Context,” sponsored by the American Occupational Therapy Association, February 4, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California.

1998    Phenomenological Approaches to Environment-Behavior Research, invited paper presented at the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, August, San Francisco.

1994  Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language as a Way to Understand Frederic Church's Olana, a presentation to the planning committee for an art exhibition, “The Center of the World: Contemporary Views from Olana,” Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, March.

1990  The Conceptual Approaches of Christopher Alexander, Karsten Harries, and Thomas Thiis-Evensen as a Way to Understand Sense of Place: American Landscape Artist Frederic Church's Olana as an Example, invited lecture and seminar presented at the Departments of Geography and Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, November.

1989  Phenomenology, Architecture, and Environmental Design Research, invited seminar presented at the Department of Architecture, University of Michigan, April.

1988  Community Design: Place as Art and Art as Place, Poughkeep­sie, New York, December; part of a fall lecture series on public art organized by the Dutchess County Arts Council.

1988  Phenomenology as a Paradigm for Environment-Behavior Research, invited lecture, Graduate Program in Environmental Psychology, City University of New York, October.

1986  Phenomenology, Design, and Environment‑Behavior Research, a lecture given for the “Invited Speakers” program, Department of Architecture, Clemson, University, Clemson, South Carolina, September.

1986  The Phenomenological Approach to Architecture as Place‑Making, an invited lecture, College of Architecture and Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, May.

1985  Phenomenology and Environment-Behavior-Design Research, an invited lecture, Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April. 

Institutes & Workshops

2001  Participated in a “Goethe’s Way of Science” workshop, sponsored by the Nature Institute, Harlemville, NY, June.

1991  Participated in the “National Park Service Painting and Sculpture Workshop,” Santa Fe, New Mexico, June [an invited gathering of experts to establish a set of federal criteria for identifying nationally-significant sites relating to American artists and their lives].

1985  Attended a summer seminar, Perception in Art and Literature, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, 20 June‑8 August.

1984  Attended a summer institute, Urban Architecture: A New Perspective, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 25 June‑28 July. 

Awards & Grants

2006  Service Award, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), given for contributions to the field of environmental design], annual EDRA meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, May.

1994  Summer Teaching Grant, preparation of courses for General Education curriculum, Kansas State University, $2,400

1992  Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University, $510

1991  Design Arts Research Grant, National Endowment of the Arts, Design Arts Research Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, $15,000, Grant No. 91-4216-0038 [“Presenting Sense of Place to the Public: Planning an Introductory Multi-Media Exhibit for American Landscape Painter Frederic Church's Olana”].

1991  Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University, $490

1990  Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University, $400

1989  Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University, $500

1989  Design Arts Research Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, $8,700, Grant No. 87-4216-0152, [“Identify­ing and Designing for the Uniqueness of Place: A Pattern Language for Hudson River Landscape Painter Frederic Church's Olana”].

1988  President's Faculty Development Grant, Kansas State University, $2,000

1987  Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University, $550

1987  Faculty Summer Research Grant, Kansas State University, $3,500 

Organizational Activities

1990  Organized a symposium, “Phenomenological Approaches to Place and Landscape,” for the national meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April.

1989  Co-founded the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Network [a working group of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)]

1987  Co‑organized a workshop, “Phenomenological Approaches to Cities and Urban Design,” annual meetings of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Ottawa, June.

1987  Organized a workshop, “Phenomenology and the Environmental Professions,” annual meetings of the Human Science Research Association Conference, University of Ottawa, May.

1983  Organized a session, “Phenomenologies of Place and Environmental Experience,” annual meetings of the Society of Phenomenology and Human Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, October.

1983  Organized a session, “Experiential Perspectives in Behavioral Geography,” Association of American Geographers' Behavioral Geography specialty group, Denver, Colorado, April.

1982  Organized a session, “Phenomenologies of Place and Environment,” Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, October.

1982  Organized a session, “Philosophical Directions in Behavioral Geography,” Association of American Geographers Behavioral Geography specialty group, San Antonio, Texas, April.

1981  Organized a session, “Dwelling, Community, Place and Environment,” the Society for Phenomenology and Social Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October.

1979  Organized a session, “Experiential Perspectives on Place,” national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April.

1975  Organized a session, “Experiencing the Environment,” the symposium‑fair “Children, Nature, and the Urban Environment,” May.

1972  Organized a session, “Environmental Imagery from Popular Sources,” Environmental Design Research Association meetings, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, January. 

Departmental & University Service

1990-08       Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, Architecture Department, Kansas State University.

1994-08       Member, College Faculty Affairs Committee, College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Kansas State University.

2005-07       Chair, External Head Search Committee, Architecture Department, Kansas State University.

2005-06       Member, College Advisory Deanship Review Committee, Kansas State University.

1994-98       Member, General Education Task Force Committee, Kansas State University.

1989-92       Editor, Architecture Update [monthly newsletter of the Architecture Department, Kansas State University].

1989-90       Member, Faculty Search Committee, Architecture Department, Kansas State University.

1987-88       Co-Editor, Architecture Update, Architecture Department, Kansas State University.

1987            Member, Kansas State University Core-Curriculum Review Committee, representing College of Architecture and Design.

1984‑88       Member, College Subcommittee on Use of Human Subjects in Research, Kansas State University.

1986‑88       Member, Graduate Procedure and Admissions Committee, Architecture Department, Kansas State University.

1986            Coordinator, Department of Architecture, History and Environment‑Behavior Sections, National Architecture Accreditation Board (NAAB) Report.

1984‑85       Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Pre‑Design Professions. 

1983‑84       Chair, Computer Committee, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University.

1981‑83       Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Environmental Design, University of Oklahoma.

1981‑82       Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Architecture, University of Oklahoma.

1981‑83       Member, committee in charge of designing a new Environmental Design Degree, Department of Architecture, University of Oklahoma.

1980‑81       Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma. 

Professional Service

2007-08       Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Psychology.

2006-08       Member, Editorial Board, Environmental Philosophy.

1990-08       Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.

1990-06       Editor, Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter.

1998-05       Member, Editorial Board of Philosophy and Geography.

1992-00       Member, Advisory Panel, Land Ethics Program, Center for Respect of Life and Environment, Washington, D.C. [a subsidiary of the American Humane Society].

1987-92       Member, Editorial Board, Professional Geographer.

1984‑92       Member, Editorial Board, Phenomenology and Pedagogy.

1984-87                  Member, Editorial Board, Human Studies.

1981‑84       Member of the Board of Directors, Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

1983‑85       Secretary, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences.

1981‑85       Member of the Executive Board, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences [representing the environmental disciplines].

1989-06       Referee of manuscripts and proposals for the following:

                             National Science Foundation

                             Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

                             Centre for Studies in Religion and Society

                             Journal of Environmental Psychology

                             Journal of Architectural Research

                             Architecture and Behavior

                             Annals of the Association of American Geographers

                             Landscape Journal

                             Landscape Research

                             Professional Geographer

                             Journal of Historical Geography

                             Phenomenology and Pedagogy

                             Journal of Children's Environments

                             Journal of Architectural and Planning Research

                             Anthropology & Humanism Quarterly

                             Environmental Ethics

                             Geography and Philosophy

                             Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology