Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology
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Published three times a year, Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology (EAP) is a forum and clearing house for research and design that incorporate a qualitative approach to environmental and architectural experience.
One key concern of EAP is design, education, and policy supporting and enhancing natural and built environments that are beautiful, alive, and humane. Realizing that a clear conceptual stance is integral to informed research and design, the editors emphasize phenomenological approaches but also cover other styles of qualitative research.
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Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 35, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2024) Seamon, DavidThis winter/spring issue provides four book reviews and three essays: Cognitive scientist Andrea Hiott reviews psychotherapist Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things; Architect Susan Ingham reviews Lisa Heschong’s Visual Delight in Architecture; Anthropologist Jenny Quillien reviews architect Howard Davis’s edited collection of Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander; EAP editor David Seamon reviews Christopher Alexander’s Production of Houses; Architect Howard Davis reports on a recent event celebrating Alexander’s Mexicali self-help housing experiment; Architect Gary Coates provides the new preface to his recently reprinted Resettling America, originally published in 1981; Philosopher Jeff Malpas offers remarks for a memoriam event devoted to the late Bob Mugerauer, a co-founder of EAP; Anthropologist Jenny Quillien introduces a phenomenological reformulation of the ideas of early-twentieth-century geographer and environmental determinist Ellen Churchill Semple.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 35, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2024) Seamon, DavidThe summer-fall 2024 issue of ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY celebrates 35 years of publication and includes the following items: Philosopher Ingrid Leman Stefanovic provides a celebratory commentary on 35 years of EAP. EAP editor David Seamon draws on philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s “hermeneutics of restoration of meaning” as one thematic means to identify EAP’s major aim over the years. Geographer Edward Relph considers artificial intelligence as it might be critiqued via the thinking of philosopher Hannah Arendt and her insights on modernity’s invention of totalitarianism. Philosopher Kenn Maly examines the phenomenon of water via the four qualities of substance, flow, non-duality, and freedom. Chinese geographers Xu Huang and Zichuan Guo offer an ethnographic picture of Chengdu, China’s He-Ming Teahouse, opened in 1923. Artist and writer Vicki King considers how the paintings of Canadian-American abstract-expressionist artist Agnes Martin “evoke sensual memories of New Mexico.”Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 36, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2025) Seamon, DavidBesides “Items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue of EAP includes book notes on geographer Paul Merriman’s Space (2022); philosopher Timothy D. Mooney’s Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (2024); theologian Benjamín Valentín’s Touched by This Place (2024); and a reprint of naturalist Paul Krafel’s Shifting (2024). There is also an “in memoriam” section for archeologist and anthropologist Christopher Tilley, who died in London in March 2024. In part, he was known for his highly innovative efforts to use first-person phenomenological method to picture how ancient peoples experienced and understood the landscapes and places in which they found themselves. Longer entries begin with independent researcher Stephen Wood, who introduces the possibilities by which aquatic life may have lived connections to the dialectic of darkness and light via such phenomena as water depth and terrestrial location. Next, Israeli architect Nili Portugali discusses her design efforts to implement the theory of wholeness developed by American architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander. Portugali’s real-world focus is her design of an apartment house in Tel Aviv, Israel. She considers how her envisioning and building this structure are grounded in and actualize Alexander’s understanding of making environmental and place wholeness.Item Open Access Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Cumulative Index, Vols. 1–35 (1990–2024)(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2025) Seamon, DavidThis index includes EAP entries except reference items listed in “citations received.” Entries have been identified in the following order: volume number, issue number, and page(s). Thus 3,2:10, for example, refers to volume 3, issue 2, page 10. Volume numbers by years are as follows: vol. 1—1990; vol. 2—1991; vol. 3—1992; vol. 4—1993; vol. 5—1994; vol. 6—1995; vol. 7—1996; vol. 8—1997; vol. 9—1998; vol. 10—1999; vol. 11—2000; vol. 12—2001; vol. 13—2002; vol. 14—2003; vol. 15—2004; vol. 16—2005; vol. 17—2006; vol. 18—2007; vol. 19—2008; vol. 20—2009; vol. 21—2010; vol. 22—2011; vol. 23—2012; vol. 24—2013; vol. 25—2014; vol. 26—2015; vol. 27—2016; vol. 28—2017; vol. 29—2018; vol. 30—2019; vol. 31—2020; vol. 32—2021; vol. 33—2022; vol. 34—2023; vol. 35—2024; vol. 36—2025 [note EAP became digital-copy-only in 2016 and shifted from three to two issues per year].Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 34, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2023) Seamon, DavidThe issue includes four essays:- Zoologist Stephen Wood examines jizz—the singular presence of a living being instantly recognizable without the involvement of conscious attention; Wood’s focus is the jizz of birds.
- Geographer Edward Relph considers aspects of a phenomenology of climate change by examining how the phenomenon is understood and experienced via both everyday and extreme environmental situations and events.
- Philosopher Robert Josef Kozljanič overviews the study of genius loci (sense of place), giving particular attention to recent phenomenological research on the topic, including the “New Phenomenology” of philosopher Hermann Schmitz.
- Artist and place researcher Victoria King recounts her Australian experiences with indigenous women of the Outback and their work in sand painting.
Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 34, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2023) Seamon, DavidThis issue is a memoriam for humanistic geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, who died in August 2022. The issue includes tributes by philosopher Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and geographers Edward Relph, Stanley Brunn, and Xu Huang. We include excerpts from four of Tuan’s many articles, chapters, and books. This winter/spring issue also includes one book review and three essays:- Cognitive scientist Andrea Hiott reviews psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist’s 2009 The Master and His Emissary.
- Zoologist Stephen Wood considers the phenomenon of noticing the natural world and the question of how this directed awareness unfolds.
- Anthropologist Jenny Quillien provides a first-person ethnography of her recent residence in Alaska.
- Religious-studies scholar Harry Oldmeadow discusses the sacredness of deserts, a theme that complements his earlier EAP essay on the holiness of mountains.
Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 33, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2022) Seamon, DavidArchitect Christopher Alexander died in March, and philosopher Robert Mugerauer died in May. This issue of EAP is entirely a memorial to these two significant thinkers whose works were a major contribution to environmental and architectural phenomenology. The issue includes entries from philosopher Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, anthropologist Jenny Quillien, and computer-program researcher and poet Richard Gabriel. We republish several essays and passages from Alexander and Mugerauer’s writings. The issue includes a portfolio of photographs of Alexander’s Eishen Campus in Japan, kindly provided by Japanese photographer Takeshi Kakeda.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 33, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2021) Seamon, DavidBesides “Items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue includes the following items: Philosopher Quill R. Kukla’s City Living (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021); Phenomenologists Michael and Max van Manen’s Classical Writings for a Phenomenology of Practice (Routledge, 2021); Philosopher Sebastian Luft’s Subjectivity and Lifeworld in Transcendental Phenomenology (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2021, softcover); Philosopher Jeff Malpas’ Rethinking Dwelling (Bloomsbury, 2021); Architects Akkelies van Nes and Claudia Yamu’s Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies (Springer, 2021, open-access). The issue also includes two essays: zoologist Stephen Wood’s consideration of becoming familiar with a natural place; and religious-studies scholar Harry Oldmeadow’s portrait of the holiness of mountains.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 32, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2021) Seamon, DavidBesides “Items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue includes the following items: Zoologist Stephen Wood’s commentary relating to the phenomenology of animal welfare; Environmental psychologist Claudia Mausner discussion of liminality, place, home, and multiple “homes”; Architect Tim White’s firsthand examination of the human-sustaining walkability of Florence, Italy; Geographer Edward Relph’s overview of the future of places and place experiences in the 21st century; Architect Levent Şentürk’s effort to summarize graphically the work of urban designer Kevin Lynch’s seminal The Image of the City (1961).Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 31, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2020) Seamon, DavidBesides “Place and COVID-19,” “Items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue includes the following items: An “in memoriam” for architect and sacred geometer Keith Critchlow, who died in London in April; A “book note” on philosopher Dermot Moran’s study, Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (2010); A “book note” on philosopher Ingrid Leman Stefanovic’s The Wonder of Water (2020), an edited collection examining how human experience relates to decisions about water; Torontonian Robert Fabian’s update on downtown neighborhood planning in his city (“A New Urban Place”); Philosopher John Russon’s exploration of the lived ambiguity of travelling to a foreign place (“The Border at the Heart of Human Life”); Independent researcher Stephen Wood’s discussion of two contrasting modes of science teaching—what he calls “knowledge-based learning” vs. “understanding-based learning” (“An Understanding-Grounded Approach to Science Education”)’; Science educator Henri Bortoft’s explication of Goethe’s proto-phenomenology of nature as one example of a science of wholeness (originally published as four separate essays in the last four EAP issues and now integrated into one) (“Seeing and Understanding Holistically: Goethean Science and the Wholeness of Nature”).Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 31, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2020) Seamon, DavidBesides “items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue includes the following items: An “in memoriam” for architectural theorist Bill Hillier, who died in November; Entries relating to Goethean science as a phenomenology of nature, including three “book notes” on recently-published volumes as well as the last part of philosopher Henri Bortoft’s essay, “Goethean Science and the Wholeness of Nature;” A “book note” on sociologist Michael Hviid Jacobsen’s Encountering the Everyday: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Unnoticed; Essays by writer David Ferlic (“Walking the Dog Phenomenologically”) and anthropologist Kevin Browne (“Negotiating National Memory and Forgetting through Cemeteries”); Psychologist Akihiro Yoshida’s Japanese translation of the “twenty-three definitions of phenomenology,” originally published in the 2019 summer/fall issue of EAP.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Cumulative Index (Volumes 1-30, 1990-2019)(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2019) Seamon, DavidThis index includes all EAP entries except reference items listed in “citations received.” Entries have been identified in the following order: volume number, issue number, and page(s). Thus 3,2:10, for example, refers to volume 3, issue 2, page 10. Volume numbers by years are as follows: vol. 1—1990; vol. 2—1991; vol. 3—1992; vol. 4—1993; vol. 5—1994; vol. 6—1995; vol. 7—1996; vol. 8—1997; vol. 9—1998; vol. 10—1999; vol. 11—2000; vol. 12—2001; vol. 13—2002; vol. 14—2003; vol. 15—2004; vol. 16—2005; vol. 17—2006; vol. 18—2007; vol. 19—2008; vol. 20—2009; vol. 21—2010; vol. 22—2011; vol. 23—2012; vol. 24—2013; vol. 25—2014; vol. 26—2015; vol. 27—2016; vol. 28—2017; vol. 29—2018; vol. 30—2019. The index categories are: feature essays; thematic issues, book and film reviews; book notes; bibliographies; course outlines; poetry; noteworthy readings; graduate theses; web sites; news from readers; conferences; organizations; refereed journals; book series; other publications; obituaries; topics.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 30, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2019) Seamon, DavidBesides “items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue includes the following items: An “in memoriam” for phenomenological sociologist George Psathas, who died last November; “Book notes” on philosopher Dan Zahavi’s Phenomenology: The Basics; and naturalist Paul Krafel’s Roaming Upward; The third part of the late philosopher Henri Bortoft’s 1999 conference presentation on Goethean science; Sociologist Julia Bennett’s overview of her doctoral research relating to belonging among families who have lived in one English town for multiple generations; Environmental educator John Cameron’s continuing discussion of “lived interiority” via consideration of landscape character as understood by several well-known thinkers and writers; Australian artist and photograph Sue Michael’s introductory text and several works that were part of her recent painting and photography exhibit, “Settled Areas”; To mark EAP’s 30th year of publication, editor David Seamon’s discussion of current conceptual and methodological concerns relating to phenomenology as a philosophy and research approach; The issue ends with 23 definitions of phenomenology written by eminent phenomenological thinkers.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 30, Number 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2018) Seamon, DavidVol. 30, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2019 (Besides “conferences,” “items of interest,” and “citations received,” this EAP issue includes the following entries: an “in memoriam” for geographer David Lowenthal, an early figure in environmental phenomenology, who died in London in September; a “book note” on architect and architectural theorist Hendrik Auret’s Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Interpretation of Heidegger’s Philosophy (Routledge, 2018); a “book note” on philosopher Edward Casey’s The World on Edge (Indiana University Press, 2017); the second part of the late philosopher Henri Bortoft’s 1999 conference presentation on Goethean science; Anthropologist Jenny Quillien’s reflections upon her recent experiences of living in Amsterdam as they point toward the significance of language in contributing to places and lifeworlds; Colorado speedskater David Feric’s account of his firsthand experience of the sport as a starting point for a phenomenology of speedskating; Artist and art educator Doris Rohr’s consideration of the work of British artist and art critic John Ruskin as a conceptual and methodological means to facilitate a style of seeing and drawing that maintains sympathetic contact with the thing looked at and represented.Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 29, Number 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2018) Seamon, DavidVol. 29, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2018 (Includes “Items of Interest,” and “Citations Received;" Book note on the recently published 2nd edition of "Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography" by philosopher Jeff Malpas; book note on EAP editor David Seamon’s recently published "Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making;" and essays by the late philosopher and science educator Henri Bortoft, and retired environmental educator John Cameron.)Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 29, Number 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2018) Seamon, DavidVol. 29, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2018 (includes “Conferences,” “Symposium,” “Publishing items,” “Citations received;” memoriam for William Ittelson, written by John Hollander; book note of “An Anthropology of Landscape: The Ex-traordinary in the Ordinar;” book review by Thomas Barrie; essays by Barbara Erwine, Edward Relph, and Dennis Pohl; poems by Sheryl L. Nelms.)Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 28, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2017) Seamon, DavidVol. 28, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2017 (includes “’Atmosphere’ book series,” “Place and Phenomenology,” “Christopher Alexander and a new master’s degree in Architecture,” “Publishing opportunity,” “Phenomenology commons,” “Conferences,” “Citations received;” essays by David Seamon, Anne Buttimer, Robert Barzan, Jenny Quillien, John Cameron; book Note by Jane Jacobs; book review by Isis Brook.)Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 28, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2016) Seamon, DavidVol. 28, No. 1, Winter 2017 (includes “conferences,” “citations received,” “book note” on Alberto Pérez-Gómez’s recently published Attunements, and essays by Lena Hopsch & Ulf Cronquist, Robert Barzan, and Sue Michael)Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 27, issue 2(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2016) Seamon, DavidVol. 27, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2016 (includes “citations received,” a book review of Peter L. Laurence’s Becoming Jane Jacobs, and essays by Tarek Wagih, Paul Krafel, Stephen Wood, and John Cameron)Item Open Access Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 27, issue 1(Kansas State University. Architecture Department, 2016) Seamon, DavidVol. 27, No. 1, Winter 2016 (includes “items of interest,” “citations received,” book review of Christopher Tilley’s Interpreting Landscapes, and essays by Dylan Trigg, Stephen Wood, Jenny Quillien, Victoria King, and Gary J. Coates)
