ABSTRACT
This chapter considers place as a monad, which, first of all, accommodates the phenomenon as a whole without identifying distinctions. A phenomenological understanding of place contends that objective and subjective aspects of any particular place and place experience are presupposed by and only possible because of the inescapable existential fact of an always–already lived emplacement that is one existential grounding of human life. Though people are always already emplaced, the particular manner of that emplacement incorporates a wide range of specific places and place experiences. In thinking through the monad of place, one realizes that any manner of place experience presupposes a lived commingling between experiencers' lived emplacement and the particular places where that lived emplacement unfolds. Theoretically, the monad is crucial to all disciplines and professions dealing with environmental, architectural, and place concerns because the monad of place helps one to realize that human beings and worlds are always integrally together.
