David Seamon is Associate Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University. He is the author of A Geography of the Lifeworld, and Dwelling, Place, and Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World.

• Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments 1. Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: An IntroductionDavid Seamon Part I. Modernity and the Built Environment: Problems and Possibilities 2. Modernity and the Reclamation of PlaceEdward Relph 3. Thoughts on a Non-Arbitrary ArchitectureKarsten Harries 4. "If the Doors of Perception Were Cleansed": Toward an Experiential Aesthetics for the Designed LandscapeCatherine Howett Part II. Interpreting Architecture and Landscape 5. The First Roof: Interpreting a Spatial PatternMurray Silverstein 6. Toward an Architectural Vocabulary: The Porch as a BetweenRobert Mugerauer 7. A Lesson in Continuity: The Legacy of the Builders' Guild in Northern GreeceRonald Walkey 8. Toward a Phenomenology of Landscape and Landscape Experience: An Example from CataloniaJoan Nogue i Font 9. Toward a Holistic Understanding of Place: Reading a Landscape Through Its Flora and FaunaMark Riegner Part III. Living, Understanding, and Designing 10. Different Worlds Coming Together: A Phenomenology of Relationship as Portrayed in Doris Lessing's Diaries of Jane SomersDavid Seamon 11. Putting Geometry in its Place: Toward a Phenomenology of the Design ProcessKimberly Dovey 12. Sacred Structures and Everyday Life: A Return to Manteo, North CarolinaRandolph T. Hester Jr. 13. Designing for a Commitment to Place: Lessons from the Alternative Community FindhornClare Cooper Marcus 14. Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically Through Christopher Alexander's Patterm Language: The Example of MeadowcreekGary J. Coates and David Seamon Contributors Index

"The rifts Seamon seeks to heal in this anthology are not only between disciplines or between knowledge and action or designing and building. They are, most fundamentally, the rifts between us and all that we see as not us. Without the greater empathy and care in designing, planning, and understanding environments that these essays illustrate, there can be little hope of change or of survival." — Karen A. Franck, New Jersey Institute of Technology