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David Seamon

Environment-behavior researcher and Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. His research and writings focus on the ways that the natural and built environments contribute to human well-being. Key themes in which Seamon is interested include: Human aspects of design; Place and place-making; The nature of environmental and architectural experience; Environmental and architectural aesthetics; Artistic media as a means for understanding environment, place, and nature; The "phenomenology of nature" developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Phenomenology as a method of inquiry in the human sciences and environment-behavior research.

4 Publications

Life takes place

David Seamon

Routledge - London

2018

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly.

Dwelling, seeing, and designing

David Seamon (ed)

State University of New York Press - Albany, NY

1993

Phenomenological work relating to architecture and environmental design

Dwelling, place and environment

David Seamon (ed)

Nijhoff - The Hague

1985

Chapters exploring phenomenological approaches to architectural and environmental topics

A geography of the lifeworld

David Seamon

St. Martin's Press - New York City

1979

A phenomenology of environmental experience arranged around the three lived themes of movement, rest, and encounter

4 Publications