dwelling, place and environment

dwelling, place and environment

dwelling, place and environment towards a phenomenology of person and world edited by david seamon and robert mugerauer 1985 MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS... a member of the KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP - DORDRECHT I BOSTON I LANCASTER -n

Distributors for the United States and Canada: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043, USA for the UK and Ireland: Kluwer Academic Publishers, MTP Press Limited, Falcon House, Queen Square, Lancaster LA1 1 RN, UK for ai/ other countries: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Distribution Center, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Dwelling, place, and environment. 1. Anthropo-geography--Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Human ecology--addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Dwellings--Social aspects--addresses, essays, lectures 4. Phenomenology--Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Seamor., David. II. Mugerauer, Robert. GF49.D83 1985 304.2 85-13626 ISBN-13: 978-90-247-3283-1 ISBN-13: 978-90-247-3282-1 e-isbn-13: 978-94-010-9251-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-9251-7 Copyright 1985 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 1985 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, P.O. Box 163, 3300 AD Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Contents Acknowledgments 1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introduction by David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer vii 1 Part I. Beginnings and directions 2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: The phenomenological origins of geography 15 by Edward Relph 3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning by Kimberly Dovey 4. Language and the emergence of the environment by Robert Mugerauer 5. Place, body and situation by Joseph Grange 33 51 71 Part II. Environment and place 6. Acoustic space by R. Murray Schafer 87 7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness 99 by Miriam Helen Hill 8. Towards revealing the sense of place: An intuitive "reading" of four Dalmatian towns 113 by Francis Violich

vi Contents 9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland 137 by Walter L. Brenneman, Jr. 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world 159 by David G. Saile 1. A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio 183 by Botond Bognar Part III. Place and dwelling 12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition 201 by Richard Lang 13. Body, house and city: The intertwinings of embodiment, inhabitation and civilization 215 by Bernd Jager 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling-journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg's "Emigrant" novels 227 by David Seamon 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth 247 by Michael E. Zimmerman Part IV. Discovering wholes 16. Nature, water symbols and the human quest for wholeness 257 by Anne Buttimer 17. Counterfeit and authentic wholes: Finding a means for dwelling in nature 281 by Henri Bortoft The contributors 303 Index 307

Acknowledgments We are grateful to the institutions and individuals who have supported our work on this volume. In particular, we would like to thank Mark Lapping, Ronald Hess, Bernd Foerster and Eugene Kremer for administrative and financial assistance; Mary Langman and Claire Waffle for secretarial aid; Harold Vandeventer for computer assistance; and Gary Coates and Lew Seibold for sympathetic interest and support. Particularly, we are grateful to Kathleen Neet-Seibold for her patience, concern and inspired typing. Robert Mugeraurer's work on the volume was facilitated by an appointment as a Visiting Scholar in the graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin. This volume was completed through a research grant from Kansas State University.