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Architecture and Ritual

How Buildings Shape Society

By: Peter Blundell Jones

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Architecture and Ritual

How Buildings Shape Society

By: Peter Blundell Jones

Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472577507

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9781472577504

Gunnar Asplund

By: Peter Blundell Jones

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Gunnar Asplund

By: Peter Blundell Jones

A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism. ove all, he achieved a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape, and it is such contributions that have made him recognized as Sweden's leading architect of the twentieth century. His ilities are amply demonstrated in masterpieces like the Woodland Cemetery. This comprehensive monograph includes extensive new colour photography as well as many original drawings. It was produced in colloration with the archives of the Swedish Architectural Museum in Stockholm. There is no other book currently in print dedicated solely to the work of Gunnar Asplund.

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240

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Phaidon Press

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0714863157

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9780714863153

Hugo Häring

The Organic Versus the Geometric

By: Peter Blundell Jones

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Hugo Häring

The Organic Versus the Geometric

By: Peter Blundell Jones

« Peter Blundell Jones, Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, has long been concerned with the organic movement in architecture and has written extensively about it, including a substantial work on Hans Scharoun. The present book is not just a biography of Haring, but an unusually detailed analysis of his architectural work, including many unbuilt projects which have never before been published. It also includes an account of Haring's theory, with translated extracts from his many writings. Through setting Haring within his historical context, and differentiating his position from figures such as Mies, Le Corbusier and Hannes Meyer, Peter Blundell Jones suggests a radical reframing of the early Modern Movement. He was aided in the development of the book by Haring's personal assistant in the late years, Margot Aschenbrenner, who was trained as a philosopher. »--Jaquette.

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3930698919

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Architecture and Ritual

How Buildings Shape Society

By: Peter Blundell Jones

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How Buildings Shape Society

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1472577493

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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990

By: Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe

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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990

By: Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe

Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed. The case study structure allows each example to be discussed and used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches. Filled with beautiful photographs, plans and architect's drawings, this is a clear and accessible discussion on a period of architecture that engages many questions still under debate in architecture today.

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Routledge

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1135144087

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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, 1945-1990

By: Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe

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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, 1945-1990

By: Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe

In this text, Peter Blundell Jones and Eamonn Canniffe detail a new approach to the understanding of modern architecture by using case studies to explore the themes and diversity of architecture from the 1945 to 1990.

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075066374X

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Hugo Häring

The Organic Versus the Geometric

By: Peter Blundell Jones

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The Organic Versus the Geometric

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Pacific Fury

By: Peter Thompson

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Pacific Fury

By: Peter Thompson

How Australia and her allies defeated the Japanese. Pearl Harbor; The Fall of Singapore; Curtin's Fight With Churchill; The Bombing Of Darwin; POW Camps; The Battle of Midway; Kokoda; Buna; Kamikaze Pilots; Hiroshima... These words alone are enough to convey the terror, courage and drama of the Pacific War, when the balance of power stood on a knife-edge and when the future of Australia was on the brink - threatened by Japanese aggression on the one hand and British deception on the other. After a conflict that took an unimaginable number of lives and ended with the unleashing of the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen, the Allies emerged victorious. Australia, however, was criticised by Churchill and his generals for showing cowardice in the face of the enemy and for not caring about the fate of other nations. The endorsement of these claims by several military historians today shows that the smear has not gone away. Until now. Peter Thompson presents, for the first time, an account of the conflict that places Australian voices and action at the heart of the struggle. Based on exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses and written with all the pace and verve you would expect of a master storyteller, Pacific Fury brings the people and the battles to life in a sensational history not to be bettered in a generation.

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577

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Random House Australia

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1864715618

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Hans Scharoun

By: Peter Blundell Jones,Peter Blundell-Jones

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Hans Scharoun

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An exhaustive study of the significant German architectural Modernist.

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Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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0714836281

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9780714836287

Book's by Peter Blundell Jones

Architecture and Ritual

Architecture and Ritual

Gunnar Asplund

Gunnar Asplund

Hugo Häring

Hugo Häring

Architecture and Ritual

Architecture and Ritual

Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990

Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990

Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, 1945-1990

Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, 1945-1990

Hugo Häring

Hugo Häring

Pacific Fury

Pacific Fury

Hans Scharoun

Hans Scharoun

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