David Seamon

David Seamon

Professor of Architecture - Kansas State University

David Seamon is a Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Trained in geography and environment-behavior research, he is interested in a phenomenological approach to place, architecture, and environmental design as place making.

His books include A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest, and Encounter (Palgrave Macmillan, 1979); Dwelling, Place, and Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World (edited with Robert Mugerauer; 1985; rev. ed., Krieger, 2000); Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology (State University of New York, 1993); and Goethe’s Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature (edited with Arthur Zajonc, State University of New York, 1998). He edits the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter. More information is available at www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/.


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