Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Vol. 35 ▪ No. 1 ISSN 1083–9194 Winter/Spring ▪ 2024 This EAP begins 35 years of publication and includes “items of interest,” “citations received,” and one “book note” highlight- ing the new edition of pedagogue Max van Manen’s Phenomenology of Practice. There follow reviews of four books: psy- chotherapist Iain McGilchrist’s The Mat- ter with Things (reviewed by cognitive sci- entist Andrea Hiott); architect Lisa He- schong’s Visual Delight in Architecture (architect Susan Ingham); architect How- ard Davis’s edited collection of Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alex- ander (anthropologist Jenny Quillien); and Christopher Alexander’s Production of Houses (EAP Editor David Seamon). This last review complements architect Howard Davis’s report in this EAP issue on a recent event celebrating the self-help housing experiment that he, Christopher Alexander, and others conducted in Mexi- cali, Mexico, in the mid-1970s. Sponsored by a local arts organization, this gathering featured presentations on Alexander’s work and offered tours of some of the houses and experimental buildings designed and built at the Mexicali site. This EAP includes three essays. First, ar- chitect Gary Coates has graciously allowed us to include the new preface to his Resettling Amer- ica, an edited collection originally published in 1981 and now reprinted in Routledge’s “Re- vival” series. This book was one of the first to detail the earth's devolv- ing environment and to illustrate examples of sustainable, real-world communities. Second, philosopher Jeff Malpas pro- vides an extended version of his remarks for a memoriam event at the University of Washington, Seattle, devoted to the work of the late philosopher Robert Mug- erauer, who died in 2022. Referring to a theme central in Mugerauer’s work, Mal- pas emphasizes the importance of a care- ful, critical rethinking of belonging, home, and being-in-place. Third, Jenny Quillien provides a pene- trating phenomenological reformulation of the ideas of early-twentieth-century geog- rapher Ellen Churchill Semple (1863– 1922), too often portrayed unfairly as an environmental determinist claiming that human actions and history could be re- duced to the active, regulative power of the physical environment. Quillien demon- strates that, in fact, Semple’s understand- ing of the people-environment relationship was subtle and illustrated aspects of human life even today existentially grounded in geographical aspects of the world. Quillien’s essay intimates that a phenome- nological reconsideration of Semple’s re- markable work is long overdue and partic- ularly relevant as climate change becomes ever more prominent. IHSR Conference We’ve just learned that the 41 st -annual In- ternational Human Science Research Conference (IHSRC) will be held at west- ern Long Island’s Malloy University in Rockville Center, New York, June 9– 13, 2024. The conference theme is “Ad- vancing International Human Science Re- search: Creating Gracious Space.” This group sponsors one of the few conferences actually interested in doing real-world phe- nomenology rather than generating dense philosophical discussion. A wide range of professions and disciplines are repre- sented, and the EAP Editor strongly recom- mends the event. These conferences are always a pleasure because one is with a group of like- minded colleagues who re- vere real-world phenome- nological method. Con- tact: Judith James-Borga: jjamesborga@malloy.edu. Left: A portion of the resi- dential courtyard of one of the experimental buildings envisioned by architect Christopher Alexander and described in The Pro- duction of Houses (1985); see architect Howard Da- vis’s report of a recent event in Mexicali celebrat- ing Alexander’s experi- ment—p. 23. Photograph by Howard Davis and used with permission.