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Author: Professor Peter Blundell Jones (Professor of Architecture)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 16.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.821kg
ISBN: 9781472577474
ISBN 10: 1472577477
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 25 August 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Using examples ranging from farmhouses to hospitals to Cedric Price's Fun Palace, Peter Blundell Jones shows how the use of buildings is intimately tied to their social meaning. This carefully researched and well-argued book thereby helps re-cast architectural theory, bringing together separate frameworks—function, aesthetics and cultural value—into a single discourse. * Professor Howard Davis, Faculty for Architecture at the University of Oregon, USA * For those working in urban studies, Architecture and Ritual provides an important perspective on how human societies at any scale (family, tribe, city, nation) form and are formed by their built environments. It would be especially helpful for anyone working to understand people’s ways of life in the metropolitical context and how these ways are, to a significant degree, influenced by their architecture. * Journal of Urban Affairs * In a major contribution to the study of the anthropology of building, Peter Blundell Jones explores architecture's role as a setting for communal rituals, balancing familiar and less familiar examples from a range of cultures to provide many insights into the shared origins of different expressions in the buildings of both modern and traditional societies. * Dr Eamonn Canniffe, Principal Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, UK *
Using examples ranging from farmhouses to hospitals to Cedric Price's Fun Palace, Peter Blundell Jones shows how the use of buildings is intimately tied to their social meaning. This carefully researched and well-argued book thereby helps re-cast architectural theory, bringing together separate frameworks-function, aesthetics and cultural value-into a single discourse. Professor Howard Davis, Faculty for Architecture at the University of Oregon, USA In a major contribution to the study of the anthropology of building, Peter Blundell Jones explores architecture's role as a setting for communal rituals, balancing familiar and less familiar examples from a range of cultures to provide many insights into the shared origins of different expressions in the buildings of both modern and traditional societies. Dr Eamonn Canniffe, Principal Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, UK
Using examples ranging from farmhouses to hospitals to Cedric Price's Fun Palace, Peter Blundell Jones shows how the use of buildings is intimately tied to their social meaning. This carefully researched and well-argued book thereby helps re-cast architectural theory, bringing together separate frameworks-function, aesthetics and cultural value-into a single discourse. * Professor Howard Davis, Faculty for Architecture at the University of Oregon, USA * For those working in urban studies, Architecture and Ritual provides an important perspective on how human societies at any scale (family, tribe, city, nation) form and are formed by their built environments. It would be especially helpful for anyone working to understand people's ways of life in the metropolitical context and how these ways are, to a significant degree, influenced by their architecture. * Journal of Urban Affairs * In a major contribution to the study of the anthropology of building, Peter Blundell Jones explores architecture's role as a setting for communal rituals, balancing familiar and less familiar examples from a range of cultures to provide many insights into the shared origins of different expressions in the buildings of both modern and traditional societies. * Dr Eamonn Canniffe, Principal Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, UK *
Author Information
Peter Blundell Jones was Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield from 1994 until his death in 2016. He previously held teaching positions at the University of Cambridge and at London South Bank University, and was a prominent architectural writer, critic and historian.
