Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: An Introduction
David Seamon
Part I. Modernity and the Built Environment: Problems and Possibilities
2. Modernity and the Reclamation of Place
Edward Relph
3. Thoughts on a Non-Arbitrary Architecture
Karsten Harries
4. "If the Doors of Perception Were Cleansed": Toward an Experiential Aesthetics for the Designed Landscape
Catherine Howett
Part II. Interpreting Architecture and Landscape
5. The First Roof: Interpreting a Spatial Pattern
Murray Silverstein
6. Toward an Architectural Vocabulary: The Porch as a Between
Robert Mugerauer
7. A Lesson in Continuity: The Legacy of the Builders' Guild in Northern Greece
Ronald Walkey
8. Toward a Phenomenology of Landscape and Landscape Experience: An Example from Catalonia
Joan Nogue i Font
9. Toward a Holistic Understanding of Place: Reading a Landscape Through Its Flora and Fauna
Mark 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 Somers
David Seamon
11. Putting Geometry in its Place: Toward a Phenomenology of the Design Process
Kimberly Dovey
12. Sacred Structures and Everyday Life: A Return to Manteo, North Carolina
Randolph T. Hester Jr.
13. Designing for a Commitment to Place: Lessons from the Alternative Community Findhorn
Clare Cooper Marcus
14. Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically Through Christopher Alexander's Patterm Language: The Example of Meadowcreek
Gary J. Coates and David Seamon
Contributors
Index