The paper will present the structure and the results of an in depth study of the Museum of Anthropology, designed by Arthur Erickson Architects for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and completed in 1976. Part of the Vital... more
The paper will present the structure and the results of an in depth study of the Museum of Anthropology, designed by Arthur Erickson Architects for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and completed in 1976. Part of the Vital Signs Curriculum Project created by Cris Benton and administered through the University of California at Berkeley, this analytic project was designed and carried out by a faculty/student team in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. The significance of this study is the simultaneous presentation of qualitative and quantitative information about the thermal and luminous environment of this building.
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winter/spring 2017 issue of ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, edited and published by David Seamon
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Human Geography, Environmental Geography, Aesthetics, Architecture, and 15 moreEnvironmental Psychology, Landscape Archaeology, Landscape Architecture, Environment Behaviour Studies, Labyrinths, Humanistic Geography, Architectural Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Environmental Sustainability, Architecture and Phenomenology, Landscape, Labyrinth, Architecture and Public Spaces, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, and Environment
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The historically lush and varied sensory environments we evolved in have paled to a relatively bland homogeneous palette. With ever-increasing technological accuracy, the environments we now design and build are controlled to narrowly... more
The historically lush and varied sensory environments we evolved in have paled to a relatively bland homogeneous palette. With ever-increasing technological accuracy, the environments we now design and build are controlled to narrowly acceptable ranges of temperature, light, smell, sound and color. To address the comparatively impoverished sensory environments prevalent in contemporary architectural/urban design practice, this paper explores the intersection of the design and engineering professions as they overlap inthe realm of the senses. The paper presents a new framework for design of sensory spaces including light, color, temperature, smell, sound, touch and the personal and communal spaces brought to life through habitual use patterns. Each of these sensory dimensions is identified as an independently shaped space with attendant characteristics of location, boundary, intensity, duration, etc. which may coincide with or only partially overlap the architectural geometric space ...
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This EAP includes “items of interest” and “citations received.” We include a “book note” on anthropologists Christopher Tilley and Kate Careron-Daum’s Anthropology of Landscape, a phenomenology of how different users experience... more
This EAP includes “items of interest” and “citations received.” We include a “book note” on anthropologists Christopher Tilley and Kate Careron-Daum’s Anthropology of Landscape, a phenomenology of how different users experience southwestern England’s East Devon Pebblebed heathland. Longer entries begin with architect Thomas Barrie’s review of architect Ben Jack’s A House and Its Atmosphere. Architectural writer Barbara Erwine recounts her day-long experience of observing and recording the social dynamics of a small central square in Spain’s Andalusian hilltown of El Bosque. Next, geographer Edward Relph considers the shifting relationship between physical places and electronic media. Philosopher Dennis Pohl examines philosophical studies that make connections between architectural thinking and the ideas of philosopher Martin Heidegger. The issue ends with five poems by Texan poet Sheryl L. Nelms.